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36.Dd June 1, 1994
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.Bl -tag -width "/altroot/"
45.It Sy \&/
46root directory of the system
47.It Sy /COPYRIGHT
48system copyright notice
49.It Sy "/[a-z]"
50user filesystems
51.It Sy /altroot/
52alternate root filesystem, in case of disaster
53.It Sy /amd/
54home directories mount point; see
55.Xr amd 8
56.It Sy /bin/
57utilities used in both single and multi-user environments
58.It Sy /dev/
59block, character and other special device files
60.Pp
61.Bl -tag -width "MAKEDEV" -compact
62.It Sy MAKEDEV
63script for creating device files;
64see
65.Xr makedev 8
66.It Sy console
67the computer's console device
68.It Sy fd/
69file descriptor files;
70see
71.Xr \&fd 4
72.It Sy drum
73system swap space; see
74.Xr drum 4
75.It Sy klog
76kernel logging device; see
77.Xr syslog 3
78.It Sy kmem
79kernel virtual memory device; see
80.Xr mem 4
81.It Sy log
82UNIX domain datagram log socket; see
83.Xr syslogd 8
84.It Sy mem
85kernel physical memory device; see
86.Xr mem 4
87.It Sy stderr
88.It Sy stdin
89.It Sy stdout
90file descriptor files;
91see
92.Xr \&fd 4
93.It Sy null
94the null device; see
95.Xr null 4
96.It Sy tty
97process' controlling terminal device; see
98.Xr tty 4
99.El
100.It Sy /dump/
101online
102.Xr dump 8
103repository
104.It Sy /etc/
105system configuration files and scripts
106.Pp
107.Bl -tag -width "master.passwd" -compact
108.It Sy aliases*
109name alias files for
110.Xr sendmail 8
111.It Sy amd*
112configuration files for
113.Xr amd 8
114.It Sy changelist
115files backed up by the security script
116.It Sy crontab
117schedule used by the
118.Xr cron 8
119daemon
120.It Sy csh.cshrc
121.It Sy csh.login
122.It Sy csh.logout
123system-wide scripts for
124.Xr csh 1
125.It Sy daily
126script run each day by
127.Xr cron 8
128.It Sy disklabels/
129backup disklabels;
130see
131.Xr disklabel 8
132.It Sy disktab
133disk description file, see
134.Xr disktab 5
135.It Sy dm.conf
136dungeon master configuration; see
137.Xr dm.conf 5
138.It Sy dumpdates
139dump history; see
140.Xr dump 8
141.It Sy exports
142filesystem export information; see
143.Xr mountd 8
144.It Sy fstab
145filesystem information; see
146.Xr fstab 5
147and
148.Xr mount 8
149.It Sy ftpusers
150users denied
151.Xr ftp 1
152access; see
153.Xr ftpd 8
154.It Sy ftpwelcome
155.Xr ftp 1
156initial message; see
157.Xr ftpd 8
158.It Sy gettytab
159terminal configuration database; see
160.Xr gettytab 8
161.It Sy group
162group permissions file; see
163.Xr group 5
164.It Sy hosts
165host name database backup for
166.Xr named 8 ;
167see
168.Xr hosts 5
169.It Sy hosts.equiv
170trusted machines with equivalent user ID's
171.It Sy hosts.lpd
172trusted machines with printing privileges
173.It Sy inetd.conf
174Internet server configuration file; see
175.Xr inetd 8
176.It Sy kerberosIV/
177configuration files for the kerberos version IV;
178see
179.Xr kerberos 1
180.It Sy localtime
181local timezone information;
182see
183.Xr ctime 3
184.It Sy mail.rc
185system-wide initialization script for
186.Xr mail 1
187.It Sy man.conf
188configuration file for
189.Xr man 1 ;
190see
191.Xr man.conf 5
192.It Sy master.passwd
193.It Sy passwd
194.It Sy pwd.db
195.It Sy spwd.db
196password files and their databases; see
197.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
198.It Sy mk.conf
199optional file containing
200.Xr make 1
201variables, read by pkgsrc and the system sources.
202.It Sy monthly
203script run each month by
204.Xr cron 8
205.It Sy motd
206system message of the day
207.It Sy mtree/
208mtree configuration files;
209see
210.Xr mtree 1
211.It Sy named.*
212.It Sy namedb/
213named configuration files and databases;
214see
215.Xr named 8
216.It Sy netgroup
217network groups; see
218.Xr netgroup 5
219.It Sy netstart
220network startup script
221.It Sy networks
222network name data base; see
223.Xr networks 5
224.It Sy phones
225remote host phone number data base; see
226.Xr phones 5
227.It Sy printcap
228system printer configuration; see
229.Xr printcap 5
230.It Sy protocols
231protocol name database; see
232.Xr protocols 5
233.It Sy rc
234.It Sy rc.local
235system startup files; see
236.Xr rc 8
237.It Sy remote
238remote host description file; see
239.Xr remote 5
240.It Sy security
241daily (in)security script run by
242.Xr cron 8
243.It Sy sendmail.*
244.Xr sendmail 8
245configuration information
246.It Sy services
247service name data base; see
248.Xr services 5
249.It Sy shells
250list of permitted shells; see
251.Xr shells 5
252.It Sy sliphome
253slip login/logout scripts; see
254.Xr slattach 8
255.It Sy syslog.conf
256.Xr syslogd 8
257configuration file; see
258.Xr syslog.conf 5
259.It Sy termcap
260terminal type database; see
261.Xr termcap 3
262.It Sy ttys
263terminal initialization information; see
264.Xr ttys 5
265.It Sy uucp/
266UUCP configuration files; see
267.Xr uucp 1
268and
269.Xr uucico 8 .
270.It Sy weekly
271script run each week by
272.Xr cron 8
273.El
274.It Sy /home/
275mount point for the automounter; see
276.Xr amd 8
277.It Sy /mnt/
278empty directory commonly used by
279system administrators as a temporary mount point
280.It Sy /netbsd
281pure kernel executable (the operating system loaded into memory
282at boot time).
283.It Sy /root/
284home directory for the super-user
285.Pp
286.Bl -tag -width ".profile" -compact
287.It Sy \&.rhosts
288super-user id mapping between machines
289.It Sy \&.cshrc
290super-user start-up file
291.It Sy \&.login
292super-user start-up file
293.It Sy \&.profile
294super-user start-up file
295.El
296.ne 1i
297.It Sy /sbin/
298system programs and administration utilities
299used in both single-user and multi-user environments
300.It Sy /stand/
301programs used in a standalone environment
302.It Sy /sys
303symbolic link to the operating system source
304.It Sy /tmp/
305temporary files, usually a
306.Xr mfs 8
307memory-based filesystem (the contents
308of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system reboot)
309.It Sy /usr/
310contains the majority of the system utilities and files
311.Pp
312.Bl -tag -width "libdata/" -compact
313.It Sy X11R6/
314X11 files
315.Pp
316.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
317.It Sy bin/
318X11 binaries
319.It Sy include/
320X11 include files
321.It Sy lib/
322X11 libraries
323.El
324.Pp
325.It Sy bin/
326common utilities, programming tools, and applications
327.It Sy games/
328the important stuff
329.It Sy include/
330standard C include files
331.Pp
332.Bl -tag -width "kerberosIV/" -compact
333.It Sy arpa/
334include files for Internet service protocols
335.It Sy g++/
336include files for the C++ compiler
337.It Sy kerberosIV/
338include files for kerberos authentication package;
339see
340.Xr kerberos 1
341.It Sy machine/
342machine specific include files
343.It Sy net/
344.It Sy netatalk/
345C include files for AppleTalk protocols
346miscellaneous network include files;
347see
348.Xr atalk 4
349.It Sy netccitt/
350CCITT networking include files
351.It Sy netinet/
352include files for Internet standard protocols; see
353.Xr inet 4
354.It Sy netiso/
355include files for ISO standard protocols; see
356.Xr iso 4
357.It Sy natm/
358C include files for native mode ATM
359.It Sy netns/
360C include files for XNS standard protocols; see
361.Xr \&ns 4
362.It Sy nfs/
363C include files for NFS (Network File System)
364.It Sy protocols/
365C include files for Berkeley service protocols
366.It Sy sys/
367system C include files (kernel data structures)
368.It Sy ufs/
369C include files for UFS (The U-word File System)
370.El
371.Pp
372.It Sy lib/
373archive, profiled, position independant archive, and shared libraries
374.It Sy libdata/
375miscellaneous utility data files
376.It Sy libexec/
377system daemons & system utilities (executed by other programs)
378.Pp
379.Bl -tag -width "uucp/" -compact
380.It Sy uucp/
381UUCP binaries and scripts (historically placed; to be moved)
382.El
383.Pp
384.It Sy local/
385local executables, libraries, etc.
386.Pp
387.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
388.It Sy bin/
389local binaries
390.It Sy include/
391local include files
392.It Sy libexec/
393local daemons
394.It Sy libdata/
395local data files
396.El
397.Pp
398.It Sy mdec/
399boot blocks, etc.
400.It Sy pkg/
401packages maintained by groups other than Berkeley
402.Pp
403.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
404.It Sy bin/
405contributed binaries
406.It Sy sbin/
407contributed system utilities
408.It Sy include/
409contributed include files
410.It Sy libexec/
411contributed daemons
412.It Sy libdata/
413contributed data files
414.El
415.Pp
416.It Sy pkgsrc/
417build descriptions ("packages") for the NetBSD packages system.
418.Pp
419.Bl -tag -width "distfiles" -compact
420.It Sy distfiles
421Where unchanged source archives are fetched to/stored
422.It Sy packages
423Where compiled binary packages are stored
424.El
425.Pp
426There are also several other subdirectories which contain packages of
427a certain category, e.g. archivers, graphics, ...
428.Pp
429.It Sy bin/
430contributed binaries
431.It Sy obj/
432architecture-specific target tree produced by building the
433.Pa /usr/src
434tree; normally a symbolic link or mounted filesystem
435.It Sy sbin/
436system daemons and system utilities (normally executed by the super-user)
437.It Sy share/
438architecture-independent text files
439.Pp
440.Bl -tag -width "calendar/" -compact
441.It Sy calendar/
442a variety of calendar files; see
443.Xr calendar 1
444.It Sy dict/
445word lists;
446see
447.Xr look 1
448and
449.Xr spell 1
450.Pp
451.Bl -tag -width "special/" -compact
452.It Sy words
453common words
454.It Sy web2
455words of Webster's 2nd International
456.It Sy papers/
457reference databases;
458see
459.Xr refer 1
460.It Sy special/
461custom word lists;
462see
463.Xr spell 1
464.El
465.Pp
466.It Sy doc/
467miscellaneous documentation; source for most of the printed
468.Bx 4.3
469manuals (available
470from the
471.Tn USENIX
472association)
473.It Sy games/
474text files used by various games
475.It Sy lkm/
476documentation on the loadable kernel modules interface
477.It Sy man/
478formatted manual pages
479.It Sy me/
480macros for use with the
481.Xr me 7
482macro package
483.It Sy misc/
484miscellaneous system-wide text files
485.Pp
486.Bl -tag -width "termcap" -compact
487.It Sy termcap
488terminal characteristics database;
489see
490.Xr termcap 5
491.El
492.Pp
493.It Sy mk/
494include files for
495.Xr make 1
496.It Sy ms/
497macros for use with the
498.Xr ms 7
499macro package
500.It Sy skel/
501sample initialization files for new user accounts
502.It Sy tabset/
503tab description files for a variety of terminals, used in
504the termcap file;
505see
506.Xr termcap 5
507.It Sy tmac/
508text processing macros;
509see
510.Xr nroff 1
511and
512.Xr troff 1
513.It Sy zoneinfo/
514timezone configuration information;
515see
516.Xr tzfile 5
517.El
518.Pp
519.El
520.Pp
521.It Sy /usr/src/
522.Bx 4
523and local source files
524.Pp
525.Bl -tag -width "domestic/" -compact
526.It Sy bin/
527source for utilities/files in
528.Pa /bin
529.It Sy contrib/
530source for utilities/files in
531.Pa /usr/contrib
532.It Sy distrib/
533tools and data-files for making distributions
534.It Sy domestic/
535source covered by US ITAR export restrictions
536.It Sy etc/
537source (usually example files) for files in
538.Pa /etc
539.It Sy games/
540source for utilities/files in
541.Pa /usr/games
542.It Sy include/
543source for files in
544.Pa /usr/include
545.It Sy lib/
546source for libraries in
547.Pa /usr/lib
548.It Sy libexec/
549source for utilities/files in
550.Pa /usr/libexec
551.It Sy sbin/
552source for utilities/files in
553.Pa /sbin
554.It Sy share/
555source for files in
556.Pa /usr/share
557.Pp
558.Bl -tag -width "doc/" -compact
559.It Sy doc/
560.Pp
561.Bl -tag -width "papers/" -compact
562.It Sy papers/
563source for various Berkeley technical papers
564.It Sy psd/
565source for Programmer's Supplementary Documents
566.It Sy smm/
567source for System Manager's Manual
568.It Sy usd/
569source for User's Supplementary Documents
570.Pp
571.El
572.El
573.It Sy sys/
574kernel source files
575.Pp
576.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact
577.It Sy adosfs/
578AmigaDOS file-system support; see
579.Xr mount_ados 8
580.It Sy arch/
581.Pp
582.Bl -tag -width "powerpc/" -compact
583.It Sy alpha/
584support for the Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha architecture
585.It Sy amiga/
586support for the Amiga architecture
587.It Sy arm32/
588support for the ARM32 architecture
589.It Sy atari/
590support for the Atari architecture
591.It Sy bebox/
592support for the Be Inc. BeBox architecture
593.It Sy hp300/
594support for the Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 68000-based workstations
595.It Sy i386/
596support for the Intel 386/486/Pentium/etc. workstations
597.It Sy m68k/
598general support for the 68000 processor
599.It Sy mac68k/
600support for the Apple Computer 68000-based workstations
601.It Sy mips/
602general support for MIPS architectures
603.It Sy mvme68k/
604support for the VME 68000-based cards
605.It Sy pc532/
606support for the pc532 architecture
607.It Sy pica/
608support for the Acer PICA architecture
609.It Sy pmax/
610DECstation 3100 and 5000 MIPS-based workstations
611.It Sy powerpc/
612support for the PowerPC architecture
613.It Sy sparc/
614support for the Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture
615.It Sy sun3/
616support for the Sun Microsystems 68000-based architecture
617.It Sy sun3x/
618more support for the Sun Microsystems 68000-based architecture
619.It Sy vax/
620Digital Equipment Corp. VAX architecture
621.It Sy x68k/
622support for the x68k architecture
623.El
624.Pp
625.It Sy compat/
626kernel compatibility modules directory
627.Pp
628.Bl -tag -width "ossaudio/" -compact
629.It Sy common/
630common compatibility routines, old
631.Bx 4
632and
633.Nx
634routines.
635.It Sy freebsd/
636support for
637.Fx
638binaries; see
639.Xr compat_freebsd 8
640.It Sy hpux/
641support for 68000 HP-UX binaries
642.It Sy ibcs2/
643support for Intel Binary binaries
644.It Sy linux/
645support for Linux binaries; see
646.Xr compat_linux 8
647.It Sy m68k4k/
648support for 4Kb page 68000 binaries
649.It Sy osf1/
650support for Digital UNIX (formerly OSF/1) binaries
651.It Sy ossaudio/
652support for OSS audio
653.It Sy sunos/
654support for SunOS 4.x binaries; see
655.Xr compat_sunos 8
656.It Sy svr4/
657support for System V Release 4 binaries; see
658.Xr compat_svr4 8
659.It Sy ultrix/
660support for Ultrix binaries
661.El
662.Pp
663.It Sy conf/
664architecture independent configuration directory
665.It Sy ddb/
666in kernel debugger
667.It Sy dev/
668architecture independent device support
669.It Sy gdbscripts/
670support for accessing kernel structures from within the debugger
671.Xr gdb 1 .
672.It Sy ipkdb/
673support for kernel debugging over the network
674.It Sy isofs/
675support for ISO filesystems
676.Pp
677.Bl -tag -width "cd9660/" -compact
678.It Sy cd9660/
679support for the ISO-9660 filesystem; see
680.Xr mount_cd9660 8
681.El
682.Pp
683.It Sy kern/
684support for the high kernel (system calls)
685.It Sy lib/
686kernel libraries
687.Pp
688.Bl -tag -width "libkern/" -compact
689.It Sy libkern/
690C library routines used in the kernel
691.It Sy libsa/
692machine independant stand alone kernel library
693.It Sy libz/
694compression library
695.El
696.Pp
697.It Sy lkm/
698loadable kernel modules
699.Pp
700.Bl -tag -width "netinet/" -compact
701.It Sy compat/
702LKM support compatibility modules;  currently unsupported.
703.It Sy netinet/
704LKM support networking modules
705.Pp
706.Bl -tag -width "if_ipl/" -compact
707.It Sy if_ipl/
708LKM for IP-Filter
709.El
710.Pp
711.It Sy vfs/
712LKM support for file systems.
713.El
714.Pp
715.It Sy miscfs/
716miscellaneous file systems
717.Pp
718.Bl -tag -width "deadfs/" -compact
719.It Sy deadfs/
720kernel only dead file system
721.It Sy fdesc/
722file descriptor file system; see
723.Xr mount_fdesc 8
724.It Sy fifofs/
725POSIX FIFO support
726.It Sy genfs/
727kernel only generic file system
728.It Sy kernfs/
729kernel namespace file system; see
730.Xr mount_kernfs 8
731.It Sy nullfs/
732loop back file system; see
733.Xr mount_null 8
734.It Sy portal/
735portal file system; see
736.Xr mount_portal 8
737.It Sy procfs/
738process file system; see
739.Xr mount_procfs 8
740.It Sy specfs/
741kernel only special file system
742.It Sy umapfs/
743user and group re-mapping file system; see
744.Xr mount_umap 8
745.It Sy union/
746union file system; see
747.Xr mount_union 8
748.El
749.Pp
750.It Sy msdosfs/
751MS-DOS file system; see
752.Xr mount_msdos 8
753.It Sy net/
754miscellaneous networking support
755.It Sy netccitt/
756CCITT networking support
757.It Sy netinet/
758TCP/IP networking support
759.It Sy netiso/
760ISO networking support
761.It Sy netnatm/
762ATM networking support
763.It Sy netns/
764XNS networking support
765.It Sy nfs/
766NFS support
767.It Sy stand/
768kernel standalone support
769.It Sy sys/
770kernel (and system) include files
771.It Sy ufs/
772local filesystem support
773.Pp
774.Bl -tag -width "ffs/" -compact
775.It Sy ffs/
776the Berkeley Fast File System
777.It Sy lfs/
778the log-structured file system
779.It Sy mfs/
780the in-memory file system
781.It Sy ufs/
782shared UNIX file system support
783.El
784.It Sy vm/
785virtual memory support
786.El
787.It Sy usr.bin/
788source for utilities/files in
789.Pa /usr/bin
790.It Sy usr.sbin/
791source for utilities/files in
792.Pa /usr/sbin
793.El
794.It Sy /var/
795multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
796.Pp
797.Bl -tag -width "preserve/" -compact
798.It Sy account/
799system accounting files
800.Pp
801.Bl -tag -width "acct" -compact
802.It Sy acct
803execution accounting file;
804see
805.Xr acct 5
806.El
807.Pp
808.It Sy at/
809timed command scheduling files;
810see
811.Xr \&at 1
812.It Sy backups/
813miscellaneous backup files, largely of files found in
814.Pa /etc
815.It Sy crash/
816system crash dumps; see
817.Xr savecore 8
818.It Sy db/
819miscellaneous automatically generated system-specific database files
820.It Sy games/
821miscellaneous game status and log files
822.It Sy log/
823miscellaneous system log files
824.Pp
825.Bl -tag -width "monthly.out" -compact
826.It Sy amd.*
827.Xr amd 8
828logs
829.It Sy daily.out
830output of the last run of the
831.Pa /etc/daily
832script
833.It Sy ftp.*
834.Xr ftp 1
835logs
836.It Sy kerberos.*
837.Xr kerberos 1
838logs
839.It Sy lastlog
840system last time logged in log; see
841.Xr utmp 5
842.It Sy lpd-errs.*
843printer daemon error logs; see
844.Xr lpd 8
845.It Sy maillog.*
846.Xr sendmail 8
847log files
848.It Sy messages.*
849general system information log
850.It Sy monthly.out
851output of the last run of the
852.Pa /etc/monthly
853script
854.It Sy secure
855sensitive security information log
856.It Sy sendmail.st
857.Xr sendmail 8
858statistics
859.It Sy timed.*
860.Xr timed 8
861logs
862.It Sy weekly.out
863output of the last run of the
864.Pa /etc/weekly
865script
866.It Sy wtmp
867login/logout log;
868see
869.Xr utmp 5
870.El
871.Pp
872.It Sy mail/
873user system mailboxes
874.It Sy msgs/
875system messages; see
876.Xr msgs 1
877.It Sy preserve/
878temporary home of files preserved after an accidental death of
879.Xr ex 1
880or
881.Xr vi 1
882.It Sy quotas/
883filesystem quota information
884.It Sy run/
885system information files, rebuilt after each reboot
886.Pp
887.Bl -tag -width "utmp" -compact
888.It Sy utmp
889database of current users; see
890.Xr utmp 5
891.El
892.Pp
893.It Sy rwho/
894rwho data files; see
895.Xr rwhod 8 ,
896.Xr rwho 1 ,
897and
898.Xr ruptime 1
899.It Sy spool/
900miscellaneous printer and mail system spooling directories
901.Pp
902.Bl -tag -width "uucppublic/" -compact
903.It Sy ftp/
904commonly
905.Dq ~ftp ,
906the anonymous ftp root directory; see
907.Xr ftpd 8
908.It Sy mqueue/
909undelivered mail queue;
910see
911.Xr sendmail 8
912.It Sy news/
913Network news archival and spooling directories
914.It Sy output/
915printer spooling directories
916.It Sy uucp/
917uucp spool directory
918.It Sy uucppublic/
919commonly
920.Dq ~uucp ,
921the uucp public temporary directory; see
922.Xr uucp 1
923.El
924.Pp
925.It Sy tmp/
926temporary files that are not discarded between system reboots
927.Pp
928.Bl -tag -width "vi.recover/" -compact
929.It Sy vi.recover/
930recovery directory for
931.Xr nvi 1
932.El
933.El
934.El
935.Sh SEE ALSO
936.Xr apropos 1 ,
937.Xr \&ls 1 ,
938.Xr whatis 1 ,
939.Xr whereis 1 ,
940.Xr which 1 ,
941.Sh HISTORY
942A
943.Nm hier
944manual page appeared in
945.At v7 .
946