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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)hier.7 8.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/94 35.\" 36.Dd October 15, 2001 37.Dt HIER 7 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm hier 41.Nd layout of filesystems 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43An outline of the filesystem hierarchy. 44.Pp 45Naming is very important. 46The 47.Ux 48System relies on filename conventions for much of its power as a system. 49The following file system layout describes generally where things are 50and what they are, with references to other man pages for more detailed 51documentation. 52.Pp 53Not all files will be in every system. 54.Pp 55.Bl -tag -width "/altroot/" 56.It Sy \&/ 57root directory of the system 58.It Sy /COPYRIGHT 59system copyright notice, most often put on 60.Tn CD-ROM 61distributions. 62.It Sy "/[a-z]" 63user filesystems 64.It Sy /altroot/ 65alternate root filesystem, in case of disaster 66.It Sy /amd/ 67home directories mount point; see 68.Xr amd 8 69.It Sy /bin/ 70utilities used in both single and multi-user environments 71.It Sy /boot* 72second-stage boot loader(s) for some platforms; see 73.Xr installboot 8 74.It Sy /dev/ 75block, character and other special device files 76.Pp 77.Bl -tag -width "MAKEDEV" -compact 78.It Sy MAKEDEV 79script for creating device files; 80see 81.Xr makedev 8 82.It Sy console 83the computer's console device 84.It Sy fd/ 85file descriptor files; 86see 87.Xr fd 4 88.It Sy drum 89system swap space; see 90.Xr drum 4 91.It Sy klog 92kernel logging device; see 93.Xr syslog 3 94.It Sy kmem 95kernel virtual memory device; see 96.Xr mem 4 97.It Sy log 98.Ux 99domain datagram log socket; see 100.Xr syslogd 8 101.It Sy mem 102kernel physical memory device; see 103.Xr mem 4 104.It Sy stderr 105.It Sy stdin 106.It Sy stdout 107file descriptor files; 108see 109.Xr fd 4 110.It Sy null 111the null device; see 112.Xr null 4 113.It Sy tty 114process' controlling terminal device; see 115.Xr tty 4 116.It Sy zero 117the zero device; see 118.Xr zero 4 119.El 120.It Sy /dump/ 121online 122.Xr dump 8 123repository 124.It Sy /etc/ 125system configuration files and scripts 126.Pp 127.Bl -tag -width "master.passwd" -compact 128.It Sy amd* 129configuration files for 130.Xr amd 8 131.It Sy changelist 132files backed up by the security script 133.It Sy crontab 134schedule used by the 135.Xr cron 8 136daemon 137.It Sy csh.cshrc 138.It Sy csh.login 139.It Sy csh.logout 140system-wide scripts for 141.Xr csh 1 142.It Sy daily 143script run each day by 144.Xr cron 8 145.It Sy daily.conf 146configuration file for 147.Sy daily ; 148see 149.Xr daily.conf 5 150.It Sy defaults/ 151default configuration files read by various 152.Pa /etc/*.conf 153files 154.It Sy disktab 155disk description file, see 156.Xr disktab 5 157.It Sy dm.conf 158dungeon master configuration; see 159.Xr dm.conf 5 160.It Sy dumpdates 161dump history; see 162.Xr dump 8 163.It Sy exports 164filesystem export information; see 165.Xr mountd 8 166.It Sy fstab 167filesystem information; see 168.Xr fstab 5 169and 170.Xr mount 8 171.It Sy ftpusers 172users denied 173.Xr ftp 1 174access; see 175.Xr ftpd 8 176.It Sy ftpwelcome 177.Xr ftp 1 178initial message; see 179.Xr ftpd 8 180.It Sy gettytab 181terminal configuration database; see 182.Xr gettytab 5 183.It Sy group 184group permissions file; see 185.Xr group 5 186.It Sy hosts 187host name database backup for 188.Xr named 8 ; 189see 190.Xr hosts 5 191.It Sy hosts.equiv 192trusted machines with equivalent user ID's 193.It Sy hosts.lpd 194trusted machines with printing privileges 195.It Sy inetd.conf 196Internet server configuration file; see 197.Xr inetd 8 198.It Sy kerberosIV/ 199configuration files for the kerberos version IV; 200see 201.Xr kerberos 8 202.It Sy localtime 203local timezone information; 204see 205.Xr ctime 3 206.It Sy mail/ 207configuration files for 208.Xr sendmail 8 209.Bp 210.Bl -tag -width "sendmail.*" -compact 211.It Sy aliases* 212name alias files 213.It Sy sendmail.* 214.Xr sendmail 8 215configuration information 216.El 217.It Sy mail.rc 218system-wide initialization script for 219.Xr mail 1 220.It Sy man.conf 221configuration file for 222.Xr man 1 ; 223see 224.Xr man.conf 5 225.It Sy master.passwd 226.It Sy passwd 227.It Sy pwd.db 228.It Sy spwd.db 229password files and their databases; see 230.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 231.It Sy mk.conf 232optional file containing 233.Xr make 1 234variables, read by pkgsrc and the system sources. 235.It Sy monthly 236script run each month by 237.Xr cron 8 238.It Sy monthly.conf 239configuration file for 240.Sy monthly ; 241see 242.Xr monthly.conf 5 243.It Sy motd 244system message of the day 245.It Sy mtree/ 246mtree configuration files; 247see 248.Xr mtree 8 249.It Sy named.* 250.It Sy namedb/ 251named configuration files and databases; 252see 253.Xr named 8 254.It Sy netgroup 255network groups; see 256.Xr netgroup 5 257.It Sy netstart 258network startup script 259.It Sy networks 260network name data base; see 261.Xr networks 5 262.It Sy phones 263remote host phone number data base; see 264.Xr phones 5 265.It Sy printcap 266system printer configuration; see 267.Xr printcap 5 268.It Sy protocols 269protocol name database; see 270.Xr protocols 5 271.It Sy rc 272.It Sy rc.shutdown 273.It Sy rc.local 274.It Sy rc.d/ 275system startup and shutdown scripts; see 276.Xr rc 8 277and 278.Xr rc.d 8 279.It Sy rc.conf 280configuration file for system startup and shutdown scripts; see 281.Xr rc.conf 5 282.It Sy remote 283remote host description file; see 284.Xr remote 5 285.It Sy security 286daily (in)security script run by 287.Xr cron 8 288.It Sy security.conf 289configuration file for 290.Sy security ; 291see 292.Xr security.conf 5 293.It Sy services 294service name data base; see 295.Xr services 5 296.It Sy shells 297list of permitted shells; see 298.Xr shells 5 299.It Sy sliphome/ 300.Tn SLIP 301login/logout scripts; see 302.Xr sliplogin 8 303.It Sy syslog.conf 304.Xr syslogd 8 305configuration file; see 306.Xr syslog.conf 5 307.It Sy termcap 308terminal type database; see 309.Xr termcap 3 310.It Sy ttys 311terminal initialization information; see 312.Xr ttys 5 313.It Sy uucp/ 314UUCP configuration files; see 315.Xr uucp 1 316and 317.Xr uucico 8 . 318.It Sy weekly 319script run each week by 320.Xr cron 8 321.It Sy weekly.conf 322configuration file for 323.Sy weekly ; 324see 325.Xr weekly.conf 5 326.El 327.It Sy /home/ 328mount point for the automounter; see 329.Xr amd 8 330.It Sy /mnt/ 331empty directory commonly used by 332system administrators as a temporary mount point 333.It Sy /netbsd 334pure kernel executable (the operating system loaded into memory 335at boot time). 336.It Sy /root/ 337home directory for the super-user 338.Pp 339.Bl -tag -width ".profile" -compact 340.It Sy \&.rhosts 341super-user id mapping between machines 342.It Sy \&.cshrc 343super-user start-up file 344.It Sy \&.login 345super-user start-up file 346.It Sy \&.profile 347super-user start-up file 348.El 349.ne 1i 350.It Sy /sbin/ 351system programs and administration utilities 352used in both single-user and multi-user environments 353.It Sy /stand/ 354programs used in a standalone environment 355.It Sy /sys 356symbolic link to the operating system source 357.It Sy /tmp/ 358temporary files, usually a 359.Xr mfs 8 360memory-based filesystem (the contents 361of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system reboot) 362.It Sy /usr/ 363contains the majority of the system utilities and files 364.Pp 365.Bl -tag -width "libdata/" -compact 366.It Sy X11R6/ 367X11 files 368.Pp 369.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact 370.It Sy bin/ 371X11 binaries 372.It Sy include/ 373X11 include files 374.It Sy lib/ 375X11 libraries 376.El 377.Pp 378.It Sy bin/ 379common utilities, programming tools, and applications 380.It Sy games/ 381the important stuff 382.It Sy include/ 383standard C include files 384.Pp 385.Bl -tag -width "kerberosIV/" -compact 386.It Sy arpa/ 387include files for Internet service protocols 388.It Sy g++/ 389include files for the C++ compiler 390.It Sy kerberosIV/ 391include files for kerberos authentication package; 392see 393.Xr kerberos 8 394.It Sy machine/ 395machine specific include files 396.It Sy net/ 397.It Sy netatalk/ 398C include files for AppleTalk protocols 399miscellaneous network include files; 400see 401.Xr atalk 4 402.It Sy netccitt/ 403CCITT networking include files 404.It Sy netinet/ 405include files for Internet standard protocols; see 406.Xr inet 4 407.It Sy netinet6/ 408include files for Internet protocol version 6; see 409.Xr inet6 4 410.It Sy netiso/ 411include files for ISO standard protocols; see 412.Xr iso 4 413.It Sy netkey/ 414include files for secret key management, used for security protocols; see 415.Xr ipsec 4 416.It Sy natm/ 417C include files for native mode ATM 418.It Sy netns/ 419C include files for XNS standard protocols; see 420.Xr ns 4 421.It Sy nfs/ 422C include files for NFS (Network File System) 423.It Sy protocols/ 424C include files for Berkeley service protocols 425.It Sy sys/ 426system C include files (kernel data structures) 427.It Sy ufs/ 428C include files for UFS (The U-word File System) 429.El 430.Pp 431.It Sy lib/ 432archive, profiled, position independant archive, and shared libraries 433.It Sy libdata/ 434miscellaneous utility data files 435.It Sy libexec/ 436system daemons & system utilities (executed by other programs) 437.Pp 438.Bl -tag -width "uucp/" -compact 439.It Sy uucp/ 440UUCP binaries and scripts (historically placed; to be moved) 441.El 442.Pp 443.It Sy local/ 444local executables, libraries, etc. 445.Pp 446.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact 447.It Sy bin/ 448local binaries 449.It Sy include/ 450local include files 451.It Sy libexec/ 452local daemons 453.It Sy libdata/ 454local data files 455.El 456.Pp 457.It Sy mdec/ 458boot blocks, etc. 459.It Sy pkg/ 460packages maintained by groups other than the 461.Nx 462Project. 463.Pp 464.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact 465.It Sy bin/ 466contributed binaries 467.It Sy sbin/ 468contributed system utilities 469.It Sy include/ 470contributed include files 471.It Sy libexec/ 472contributed daemons 473.It Sy libdata/ 474contributed data files 475.El 476.Pp 477.It Sy pkgsrc/ 478build descriptions ("packages") for the 479.Nx 480packages system. 481.Pp 482.Bl -tag -width "distfiles" -compact 483.It Sy distfiles 484Where unchanged source archives are fetched to/stored 485.It Sy packages 486Where compiled binary packages are stored 487.El 488.Pp 489There are also several other subdirectories which contain packages of 490a certain category, e.g. archivers, graphics, ... 491.Pp 492.It Sy obj/ 493architecture-specific target tree produced by building the 494.Pa /usr/src 495tree; normally a symbolic link or mounted filesystem 496.It Sy sbin/ 497system daemons and system utilities (normally executed by the super-user) 498.It Sy share/ 499architecture-independent text files 500.Pp 501.Bl -tag -width "calendar/" -compact 502.It Sy calendar/ 503a variety of calendar files; see 504.Xr calendar 1 505.It Sy dict/ 506word lists; 507see 508.Xr look 1 509and 510.Xr spell 1 511.Pp 512.Bl -tag -width "special/" -compact 513.It Sy words 514common words 515.It Sy web2 516words of Webster's 2nd International 517.It Sy papers/ 518reference databases; 519see 520.Xr refer 1 521.It Sy special/ 522custom word lists; 523see 524.Xr spell 1 525.El 526.Pp 527.It Sy doc/ 528miscellaneous documentation; source for most of the printed 529.Bx 4.3 530manuals (available 531from the 532.Tn USENIX 533association) 534.It Sy games/ 535text files used by various games 536.It Sy lkm/ 537documentation on the loadable kernel modules interface 538.It Sy man/ 539formatted manual pages 540.It Sy me/ 541macros for use with the 542.Xr me 7 543macro package 544.It Sy misc/ 545miscellaneous system-wide text files 546.Pp 547.Bl -tag -width "termcap" -compact 548.It Sy termcap 549terminal characteristics database; 550see 551.Xr termcap 5 552.El 553.Pp 554.It Sy mk/ 555include files for 556.Xr make 1 557.It Sy ms/ 558macros for use with the 559.Xr ms 7 560macro package 561.It Sy skel/ 562sample initialization files for new user accounts 563.It Sy tabset/ 564tab description files for a variety of terminals, used in 565the termcap file; 566see 567.Xr termcap 5 568.It Sy tmac/ 569text processing macros; 570see 571.Xr nroff 1 572and 573.Xr troff 1 574.It Sy zoneinfo/ 575timezone configuration information; 576see 577.Xr tzfile 5 578.El 579.Pp 580.El 581.Pp 582.It Sy /usr/src/ 583.Nx 584and local source files 585.Pp 586.Bl -tag -width "domestic/" -compact 587.It Sy bin/ 588source for utilities/files in 589.Pa /bin 590.It Sy distrib/ 591tools and data-files for making distributions 592.It Sy crypto/ 593cryptographic source, which may have import or export restrictions 594.It Sy dist/ 595third-party 596.Sq virgin 597source code, referenced by other parts of the source tree 598.It Sy etc/ 599source (usually example files) for files in 600.Pa /etc 601.It Sy games/ 602source for utilities/files in 603.Pa /usr/games 604.It Sy gnu/ 605source for programs covered by the 606.Tn GNU 607license (or similar) 608.It Sy include/ 609source for files in 610.Pa /usr/include 611.It Sy lib/ 612source for libraries in 613.Pa /usr/lib 614.It Sy libexec/ 615source for utilities/files in 616.Pa /usr/libexec 617.It Sy regress/ 618various regression tests 619.It Sy sbin/ 620source for utilities/files in 621.Pa /sbin 622.It Sy share/ 623source for files in 624.Pa /usr/share 625.Pp 626.Bl -tag -width "doc/" -compact 627.It Sy doc/ 628.Pp 629.Bl -tag -width "papers/" -compact 630.It Sy papers/ 631source for various Berkeley technical papers 632.It Sy psd/ 633source for Programmer's Supplementary Documents 634.It Sy smm/ 635source for System Manager's Manual 636.It Sy usd/ 637source for User's Supplementary Documents 638.Pp 639.El 640.El 641.It Sy sys/ 642kernel source files 643.Pp 644.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact 645.It Sy adosfs/ 646AmigaDOS file-system support; see 647.Xr mount_ados 8 648.It Sy arch/ 649.Pp 650.Bl -tag -width "amigappc/" -compact 651.It Sy acorn32/ 652support for Acorn RiscPC/A7000/NC and compatibles 653.It Sy alpha/ 654support for the Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha architecture 655.It Sy amiga/ 656support for the Amiga architecture 657.It Sy amigappc/ 658support for the PowerPC based Amiga architecture 659.It Sy arc/ 660support for the ARC specification compliant systems. 661.It Sy arm26/ 662support for ARM2 and ARM3 based systems 663.It Sy arm32/ 664support for the ARM32 architecture 665.It Sy atari/ 666support for the Atari architecture 667.It Sy bebox/ 668support for the Be Inc. BeBox architecture 669.It Sy cobalt/ 670support for the Cobalt Networks MIPS Microserver architecture 671.It Sy dreamcast/ 672support for the Sega Dreamcast game console 673.It Sy evbsh3/ 674support for the SH3 based evaluation boards 675.It Sy hp300/ 676support for the Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 68000-based workstations 677.It Sy hpcmips/ 678support for the MIPS based WinCE hand-held devices 679.It Sy hpcsh/ 680support for the Hitachi SH3/4 based WinCE hand-held devices 681.It Sy i386/ 682support for the Intel 386/486/Pentium/etc. workstations 683.It Sy luna68k/ 684support for the Omron LUNA 68000-based workstations 685.It Sy m68k/ 686general support for the 68000 processor 687.It Sy mac68k/ 688support for the Apple Computer 68000-based workstations 689.It Sy macppc/ 690support for the Apple Computer PowerPC-based workstations 691.It Sy mips/ 692general support for MIPS architectures 693.It Sy mipsco/ 694support for Mips Computer Systems Inc. architecture 695.It Sy mmeye/ 696support for the Brains Inc. SH3 based mmEye multimedia server 697.It Sy mvme68k/ 698support for the VME 68000-based cards 699.It Sy news68k/ 700support for the Sony NEWS 68000-based workstations 701.It Sy newsmips/ 702support for the Sony NEWS MIPS-based workstations 703.It Sy next68k/ 704support for the NeXT 68000-based workstations 705.It Sy ofppc/ 706support for Open Firmware PowerPC workstations 707.It Sy pc532/ 708support for the pc532 architecture 709.It Sy playstation2/ 710support for the SONY PlayStation 2 711.It Sy pmax/ 712support for the MIPS-based DECstation architecture 713.It Sy powerpc/ 714general support for PowerPC architectures 715.It Sy prep/ 716support for the PowerPC Reference Platform 717.It Sy sgimips/ 718support for the SGI MIPS architecture 719.It Sy sh3/ 720general support for SH3 architectures 721.It Sy sparc/ 722support for the Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture 723.It Sy sparc64/ 724support for the Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC architecture 725.It Sy sun3/ 726support for the Sun Microsystems 68000-based architecture 727.It Sy vax/ 728Digital Equipment Corp. VAX architecture 729.It Sy x68k/ 730support for the Sharp X680x0 68000-based workstations 731.El 732.Pp 733.It Sy compat/ 734kernel compatibility modules directory 735.Pp 736.Bl -tag -width "ossaudio/" -compact 737.It Sy common/ 738common compatibility routines, old 739.Bx 4 740and 741.Nx 742routines. 743.It Sy freebsd/ 744support for 745.Fx 746binaries; see 747.Xr compat_freebsd 8 748.It Sy hpux/ 749support for 68000 HP-UX binaries 750.It Sy ibcs2/ 751support for Intel Binary binaries 752.It Sy linux/ 753support for Linux binaries; see 754.Xr compat_linux 8 755.It Sy m68k4k/ 756support for 4Kb page 68000 binaries 757.It Sy netbsd32/ 758support for 759.Nx 76032-bit binaries on 64 bit platforms with compatible CPU families 761.It Sy osf1/ 762support for 763.Tn Digital 764.Ux 765.Po 766formerly 767.Tn OSF/1 768.Pc 769binaries 770.It Sy ossaudio/ 771support for OSS audio 772.It Sy pecoff/ 773support for 774.Tn Win32 775binaries; see 776.Xr compat_pecoff 8 777.It Sy sunos/ 778support for 779.Tn SunOS 4.x 780binaries; see 781.Xr compat_sunos 8 782.It Sy svr4/ 783support for System V Release 4 binaries; see 784.Xr compat_svr4 8 785.It Sy ultrix/ 786support for 787.Tn Ultrix 788binaries 789.It Sy vax1k/ 790support for older Vax binaries that started on a 1 KB boundary 791.El 792.Pp 793.It Sy conf/ 794architecture independent configuration directory 795.It Sy crypto/ 796cryptographic kernel source, which may have import or export restrictions 797.It Sy ddb/ 798in kernel debugger 799.It Sy dev/ 800architecture independent device support 801.It Sy filecorefs/ 802support for the Acorn RISC OS filecore filesystem; see 803.Xr mount_filecore 8 804.It Sy gdbscripts/ 805support for accessing kernel structures from within the debugger 806.Xr gdb 1 . 807.It Sy ipkdb/ 808support for kernel debugging over the network 809.It Sy isofs/ 810support for ISO filesystems 811.Pp 812.Bl -tag -width "cd9660/" -compact 813.It Sy cd9660/ 814support for the ISO-9660 filesystem; see 815.Xr mount_cd9660 8 816.El 817.Pp 818.It Sy kern/ 819support for the high kernel (system calls) 820.It Sy lib/ 821kernel libraries 822.Pp 823.Bl -tag -width "libkern/" -compact 824.It Sy libkern/ 825C library routines used in the kernel 826.It Sy libsa/ 827machine independant stand alone kernel library 828.It Sy libz/ 829compression library 830.El 831.Pp 832.It Sy lkm/ 833loadable kernel modules 834.Pp 835.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact 836.It Sy compat/ 837LKM support compatibility modules; currently unsupported. 838.It Sy netinet/ 839LKM support networking modules 840.Pp 841.Bl -tag -width "if_ipl/" -compact 842.It Sy if_ipl/ 843LKM for IP-Filter 844.El 845.Pp 846.It Sy vfs/ 847LKM support for file systems. 848.El 849.Pp 850.It Sy miscfs/ 851miscellaneous file systems 852.Pp 853.Bl -tag -width "deadfs/" -compact 854.It Sy deadfs/ 855kernel only dead file system 856.It Sy fdesc/ 857file descriptor file system; see 858.Xr mount_fdesc 8 859.It Sy fifofs/ 860POSIX FIFO support 861.It Sy genfs/ 862kernel only generic file system 863.It Sy kernfs/ 864kernel namespace file system; see 865.Xr mount_kernfs 8 866.It Sy nullfs/ 867loop back file system; see 868.Xr mount_null 8 869.It Sy overlay/ 870overlay file system; see 871.Xr mount_overlay 8 872.It Sy portal/ 873portal file system; see 874.Xr mount_portal 8 875.It Sy procfs/ 876process file system; see 877.Xr mount_procfs 8 878.It Sy specfs/ 879kernel only special file system 880.It Sy syncfs/ 881kernel trickle sync algorithm 882.It Sy umapfs/ 883user and group re-mapping file system; see 884.Xr mount_umap 8 885.It Sy union/ 886union file system; see 887.Xr mount_union 8 888.El 889.Pp 890.It Sy msdosfs/ 891.Tn MS-DOS 892file system; see 893.Xr mount_msdos 8 894.It Sy net/ 895miscellaneous networking support 896.It Sy netatalk/ 897AppleTalk networking support 898.It Sy netccitt/ 899CCITT networking support 900.It Sy netinet/ 901IP networking support 902.It Sy netinet6/ 903IPv6 networking support 904.It Sy netiso/ 905ISO networking support 906.It Sy netkey/ 907Key database for IPsec networking support 908.It Sy netnatm/ 909ATM networking support 910.It Sy netns/ 911XNS networking support 912.It Sy nfs/ 913NFS support 914.It Sy ntfs/ 915NTFS filesystem support 916.It Sy stand/ 917kernel standalone support 918.It Sy sys/ 919kernel (and system) include files 920.It Sy ufs/ 921local filesystem support 922.Pp 923.Bl -tag -width "ffs/" -compact 924.It Sy ffs/ 925the Berkeley Fast File System 926.It Sy lfs/ 927the log-structured file system 928.It Sy mfs/ 929the in-memory file system 930.It Sy ufs/ 931shared 932.Ux 933file system support 934.El 935.It Sy uvm/ 936UVM virtual memory system 937.El 938.It Sy usr.bin/ 939source for utilities/files in 940.Pa /usr/bin 941.It Sy usr.sbin/ 942source for utilities/files in 943.Pa /usr/sbin 944.El 945.It Sy /var/ 946multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files 947.Pp 948.Bl -tag -width "preserve/" -compact 949.It Sy account/ 950system accounting files 951.Pp 952.Bl -tag -width "acct" -compact 953.It Sy acct 954execution accounting file; 955see 956.Xr acct 5 957.El 958.Pp 959.It Sy at/ 960timed command scheduling files; 961see 962.Xr at 1 963.It Sy backups/ 964miscellaneous backup files, largely of files found in 965.Pa /etc 966.It Sy chroot/ 967home directories of applications which are run in a 968.Xr chroot 8 969.Dq cage . 970.It Sy crash/ 971system crash dumps; see 972.Xr savecore 8 973.It Sy cron/ 974scheduled commands configuration files; see 975.Xr cron 8 976.It Sy db/ 977miscellaneous automatically generated system-specific database files 978.It Sy games/ 979miscellaneous game status and log files 980.It Sy heimdal/ 981Kerberos 5 KDC database; see 982.Xr kdc 8 983.It Sy log/ 984miscellaneous system log files 985.Pp 986.Bl -tag -width "monthly.out" -compact 987.It Sy amd.* 988.Xr amd 8 989logs 990.It Sy daily.out 991output of the last run of the 992.Pa /etc/daily 993script 994.It Sy ftp.* 995.Xr ftp 1 996logs 997.It Sy kerberos.* 998.Xr kerberos 8 999logs 1000.It Sy lastlog 1001system last time logged in log; see 1002.Xr utmp 5 1003.It Sy lpd-errs.* 1004printer daemon error logs; see 1005.Xr lpd 8 1006.It Sy maillog.* 1007.Xr sendmail 8 1008log files 1009.It Sy messages.* 1010general system information log 1011.It Sy monthly.out 1012output of the last run of the 1013.Pa /etc/monthly 1014script 1015.It Sy secure 1016sensitive security information log 1017.It Sy sendmail.st 1018.Xr sendmail 8 1019statistics 1020.It Sy timed.* 1021.Xr timed 8 1022logs 1023.It Sy weekly.out 1024output of the last run of the 1025.Pa /etc/weekly 1026script 1027.It Sy wtmp 1028login/logout log; 1029see 1030.Xr utmp 5 1031.El 1032.Pp 1033.It Sy mail/ 1034user system mailboxes 1035.It Sy msgs/ 1036system messages; see 1037.Xr msgs 1 1038.\" since we use nvi (now called vi) this isn't the place any more, is it? 1039.It Sy pkg/ 1040working files for third party packages 1041.It Sy preserve/ 1042temporary home of files preserved after an accidental death of 1043.Xr ex 1 1044or 1045.Xr vi 1 1046.It Sy quotas/ 1047filesystem quota information 1048.It Sy run/ 1049system information files, rebuilt after each reboot 1050.Pp 1051.Bl -tag -width "utmp" -compact 1052.It Sy utmp 1053database of current users; see 1054.Xr utmp 5 1055.El 1056.Pp 1057.It Sy rwho/ 1058rwho data files; see 1059.Xr rwhod 8 , 1060.Xr rwho 1 , 1061and 1062.Xr ruptime 1 1063.It Sy spool/ 1064miscellaneous printer and mail system spooling directories 1065.Pp 1066.Bl -tag -width "uucppublic/" -compact 1067.It Sy ftp/ 1068commonly 1069.Dq ~ftp , 1070the anonymous ftp root directory; see 1071.Xr ftpd 8 1072.It Sy mqueue/ 1073undelivered mail queue; 1074see 1075.Xr sendmail 8 1076.It Sy news/ 1077Network news archival and spooling directories 1078.It Sy output/ 1079printer spooling directories 1080.It Sy uucp/ 1081uucp spool directory 1082.It Sy uucppublic/ 1083commonly 1084.Dq ~uucp , 1085the uucp public temporary directory; see 1086.Xr uucp 1 1087.El 1088.Pp 1089.It Sy tmp/ 1090temporary files that are not discarded between system reboots 1091.Pp 1092.Bl -tag -width "vi.recover/" -compact 1093.It Sy vi.recover/ 1094recovery directory for new 1095.Xr vi 1 1096.El 1097.It Sy yp/ 1098Databases and configuration for the NIS (YP) system; see 1099.Xr nis 8 . 1100.El 1101.El 1102.Sh SEE ALSO 1103.Xr apropos 1 , 1104.Xr ls 1 , 1105.Xr whatis 1 , 1106.Xr whereis 1 , 1107.Xr which 1 1108.Sh HISTORY 1109A 1110.Nm 1111manual page appeared in 1112.At v7 . 1113