fhs

This article was first written in January 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/322).

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is meant to be a reference on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy. It enables:

• software to predict the location of installed files and directories, and
• users to predict the location of installed files and directories.

Achieving this by:

• specifying guiding principles for each area of the filesystem,