In this section you are going to know about the basic file system structure of SOLARIS.
File System: An organized collection of files & directories said to be file system.
The unix file system is said to be "UFS", it is very famous for its hierachal structure.
It can be called as 'Inverted tree structure'.
The top most directory is said to be root and is indicated with "/".
bin: It contains all normal user commands
ex: write, mail, cat etc.
sbin: It contains all administrator commands
ex: useradd, userdel etc.
etc: It contains system and user configuration files. It means information about system & user.
ex: /etc/shadow, /etc/system etc.
opt: it contains all 3rd party softwares
ex: SQL
home: It contains all the default directory of user
var: It contains all the messages generated by the system users & the administrator
lib: it contains all the library files
usr: "Unix System Resources". It contains all the resources.
ex: manpages, info
dev: It contains all logical names of physical devices
tmp: it contains all temporary files & directories. Note: these files will be deleted at the time of system reboot.
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