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Naming Directories and Files

The root directory  is identified by a single character: slash (/). To name one of the major directories directly under root, type slash (/) to represent root, followed by the directory's own name, as in /usr. The slash in front of usr tells you that usr is a subdirectory of root.

 
 /u or  /user       		 user directory

/bin binary directory

/dev device directory

/etc miscellaneous directory (usually system files)

/tmp temporary directory

The home directory  on the central Unix Service (DXCERN) is: /u/gg/userid/ where gg refers to the user's computing group code and userid is the login name and for AFS it is /afs/cern.ch/user/X/userid where X is the first letter of the login-name.



Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995