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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
82.Ux
83domain datagram log socket; see
84.Xr syslogd 8
85.It Sy mem
86kernel physical memory device; see
87.Xr mem 4
88.It Sy stderr
89.It Sy stdin
90.It Sy stdout
91file descriptor files;
92see
93.Xr fd 4
94.It Sy null
95the null device; see
96.Xr null 4
97.It Sy tty
98process' controlling terminal device; see
99.Xr tty 4
100.El
101.It Sy /dump/
102online
103.Xr dump 8
104repository
105.It Sy /etc/
106system configuration files and scripts
107.Pp
108.Bl -tag -width "master.passwd" -compact
109.It Sy aliases*
110name alias files for
111.Xr sendmail 8
112.It Sy amd*
113configuration files for
114.Xr amd 8
115.It Sy changelist
116files backed up by the security script
117.It Sy crontab
118schedule used by the
119.Xr cron 8
120daemon
121.It Sy csh.cshrc
122.It Sy csh.login
123.It Sy csh.logout
124system-wide scripts for
125.Xr csh 1
126.It Sy daily
127script run each day by
128.Xr cron 8
129.It Sy disklabels/
130backup disklabels;
131see
132.Xr disklabel 8
133.It Sy disktab
134disk description file, see
135.Xr disktab 5
136.It Sy dm.conf
137dungeon master configuration; see
138.Xr dm.conf 5
139.It Sy dumpdates
140dump history; see
141.Xr dump 8
142.It Sy exports
143filesystem export information; see
144.Xr mountd 8
145.It Sy fstab
146filesystem information; see
147.Xr fstab 5
148and
149.Xr mount 8
150.It Sy ftpusers
151users denied
152.Xr ftp 1
153access; see
154.Xr ftpd 8
155.It Sy ftpwelcome
156.Xr ftp 1
157initial message; see
158.Xr ftpd 8
159.It Sy gettytab
160terminal configuration database; see
161.Xr gettytab 5
162.It Sy group
163group permissions file; see
164.Xr group 5
165.It Sy hosts
166host name database backup for
167.Xr named 8 ;
168see
169.Xr hosts 5
170.It Sy hosts.equiv
171trusted machines with equivalent user ID's
172.It Sy hosts.lpd
173trusted machines with printing privileges
174.It Sy inetd.conf
175Internet server configuration file; see
176.Xr inetd 8
177.It Sy kerberosIV/
178configuration files for the kerberos version IV;
179see
180.Xr kerberos 1
181.It Sy localtime
182local timezone information;
183see
184.Xr ctime 3
185.It Sy mail.rc
186system-wide initialization script for
187.Xr mail 1
188.It Sy man.conf
189configuration file for
190.Xr man 1 ;
191see
192.Xr man.conf 5
193.It Sy master.passwd
194.It Sy passwd
195.It Sy pwd.db
196.It Sy spwd.db
197password files and their databases; see
198.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
199.It Sy mk.conf
200optional file containing
201.Xr make 1
202variables, read by pkgsrc and the system sources.
203.It Sy monthly
204script run each month by
205.Xr cron 8
206.It Sy motd
207system message of the day
208.It Sy mtree/
209mtree configuration files;
210see
211.Xr mtree 8
212.It Sy named.*
213.It Sy namedb/
214named configuration files and databases;
215see
216.Xr named 8
217.It Sy netgroup
218network groups; see
219.Xr netgroup 5
220.It Sy netstart
221network startup script
222.It Sy networks
223network name data base; see
224.Xr networks 5
225.It Sy phones
226remote host phone number data base; see
227.Xr phones 5
228.It Sy printcap
229system printer configuration; see
230.Xr printcap 5
231.It Sy protocols
232protocol name database; see
233.Xr protocols 5
234.It Sy rc
235.It Sy rc.local
236system startup files; see
237.Xr rc 8
238.It Sy remote
239remote host description file; see
240.Xr remote 5
241.It Sy security
242daily (in)security script run by
243.Xr cron 8
244.It Sy sendmail.*
245.Xr sendmail 8
246configuration information
247.It Sy services
248service name data base; see
249.Xr services 5
250.It Sy shells
251list of permitted shells; see
252.Xr shells 5
253.It Sy sliphome
254slip login/logout scripts; see
255.Xr slattach 8
256.It Sy syslog.conf
257.Xr syslogd 8
258configuration file; see
259.Xr syslog.conf 5
260.It Sy termcap
261terminal type database; see
262.Xr termcap 3
263.It Sy ttys
264terminal initialization information; see
265.Xr ttys 5
266.It Sy uucp/
267UUCP configuration files; see
268.Xr uucp 1
269and
270.Xr uucico 8 .
271.It Sy weekly
272script run each week by
273.Xr cron 8
274.El
275.It Sy /home/
276mount point for the automounter; see
277.Xr amd 8
278.It Sy /mnt/
279empty directory commonly used by
280system administrators as a temporary mount point
281.It Sy /netbsd
282pure kernel executable (the operating system loaded into memory
283at boot time).
284.It Sy /root/
285home directory for the super-user
286.Pp
287.Bl -tag -width ".profile" -compact
288.It Sy \&.rhosts
289super-user id mapping between machines
290.It Sy \&.cshrc
291super-user start-up file
292.It Sy \&.login
293super-user start-up file
294.It Sy \&.profile
295super-user start-up file
296.El
297.ne 1i
298.It Sy /sbin/
299system programs and administration utilities
300used in both single-user and multi-user environments
301.It Sy /stand/
302programs used in a standalone environment
303.It Sy /sys
304symbolic link to the operating system source
305.It Sy /tmp/
306temporary files, usually a
307.Xr mfs 8
308memory-based filesystem (the contents
309of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system reboot)
310.It Sy /usr/
311contains the majority of the system utilities and files
312.Pp
313.Bl -tag -width "libdata/" -compact
314.It Sy X11R6/
315X11 files
316.Pp
317.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
318.It Sy bin/
319X11 binaries
320.It Sy include/
321X11 include files
322.It Sy lib/
323X11 libraries
324.El
325.Pp
326.It Sy bin/
327common utilities, programming tools, and applications
328.It Sy games/
329the important stuff
330.It Sy include/
331standard C include files
332.Pp
333.Bl -tag -width "kerberosIV/" -compact
334.It Sy arpa/
335include files for Internet service protocols
336.It Sy g++/
337include files for the C++ compiler
338.It Sy kerberosIV/
339include files for kerberos authentication package;
340see
341.Xr kerberos 1
342.It Sy machine/
343machine specific include files
344.It Sy net/
345.It Sy netatalk/
346C include files for AppleTalk protocols
347miscellaneous network include files;
348see
349.Xr atalk 4
350.It Sy netccitt/
351CCITT networking include files
352.It Sy netinet/
353include files for Internet standard protocols; see
354.Xr inet 4
355.It Sy netiso/
356include files for ISO standard protocols; see
357.Xr iso 4
358.It Sy natm/
359C include files for native mode ATM
360.It Sy netns/
361C include files for XNS standard protocols; see
362.Xr ns 4
363.It Sy nfs/
364C include files for NFS (Network File System)
365.It Sy protocols/
366C include files for Berkeley service protocols
367.It Sy sys/
368system C include files (kernel data structures)
369.It Sy ufs/
370C include files for UFS (The U-word File System)
371.El
372.Pp
373.It Sy lib/
374archive, profiled, position independant archive, and shared libraries
375.It Sy libdata/
376miscellaneous utility data files
377.It Sy libexec/
378system daemons & system utilities (executed by other programs)
379.Pp
380.Bl -tag -width "uucp/" -compact
381.It Sy uucp/
382UUCP binaries and scripts (historically placed; to be moved)
383.El
384.Pp
385.It Sy local/
386local executables, libraries, etc.
387.Pp
388.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
389.It Sy bin/
390local binaries
391.It Sy include/
392local include files
393.It Sy libexec/
394local daemons
395.It Sy libdata/
396local data files
397.El
398.Pp
399.It Sy mdec/
400boot blocks, etc.
401.It Sy pkg/
402packages maintained by groups other than the
403.Nx
404Project.
405.Pp
406.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
407.It Sy bin/
408contributed binaries
409.It Sy sbin/
410contributed system utilities
411.It Sy include/
412contributed include files
413.It Sy libexec/
414contributed daemons
415.It Sy libdata/
416contributed data files
417.El
418.Pp
419.It Sy pkgsrc/
420build descriptions ("packages") for the
421.Nx
422packages system.
423.Pp
424.Bl -tag -width "distfiles" -compact
425.It Sy distfiles
426Where unchanged source archives are fetched to/stored
427.It Sy packages
428Where compiled binary packages are stored
429.El
430.Pp
431There are also several other subdirectories which contain packages of
432a certain category, e.g. archivers, graphics, ...
433.Pp
434.It Sy bin/
435contributed binaries
436.It Sy obj/
437architecture-specific target tree produced by building the
438.Pa /usr/src
439tree; normally a symbolic link or mounted filesystem
440.It Sy sbin/
441system daemons and system utilities (normally executed by the super-user)
442.It Sy share/
443architecture-independent text files
444.Pp
445.Bl -tag -width "calendar/" -compact
446.It Sy calendar/
447a variety of calendar files; see
448.Xr calendar 1
449.It Sy dict/
450word lists;
451see
452.Xr look 1
453and
454.Xr spell 1
455.Pp
456.Bl -tag -width "special/" -compact
457.It Sy words
458common words
459.It Sy web2
460words of Webster's 2nd International
461.It Sy papers/
462reference databases;
463see
464.Xr refer 1
465.It Sy special/
466custom word lists;
467see
468.Xr spell 1
469.El
470.Pp
471.It Sy doc/
472miscellaneous documentation; source for most of the printed
473.Bx 4.3
474manuals (available
475from the
476.Tn USENIX
477association)
478.It Sy games/
479text files used by various games
480.It Sy lkm/
481documentation on the loadable kernel modules interface
482.It Sy man/
483formatted manual pages
484.It Sy me/
485macros for use with the
486.Xr me 7
487macro package
488.It Sy misc/
489miscellaneous system-wide text files
490.Pp
491.Bl -tag -width "termcap" -compact
492.It Sy termcap
493terminal characteristics database;
494see
495.Xr termcap 5
496.El
497.Pp
498.It Sy mk/
499include files for
500.Xr make 1
501.It Sy ms/
502macros for use with the
503.Xr ms 7
504macro package
505.It Sy skel/
506sample initialization files for new user accounts
507.It Sy tabset/
508tab description files for a variety of terminals, used in
509the termcap file;
510see
511.Xr termcap 5
512.It Sy tmac/
513text processing macros;
514see
515.Xr nroff 1
516and
517.Xr troff 1
518.It Sy zoneinfo/
519timezone configuration information;
520see
521.Xr tzfile 5
522.El
523.Pp
524.El
525.Pp
526.It Sy /usr/src/
527.Bx 4
528and local source files
529.Pp
530.Bl -tag -width "domestic/" -compact
531.It Sy bin/
532source for utilities/files in
533.Pa /bin
534.It Sy distrib/
535tools and data-files for making distributions
536.It Sy domestic/
537source covered by US ITAR export restrictions
538.It Sy etc/
539source (usually example files) for files in
540.Pa /etc
541.It Sy games/
542source for utilities/files in
543.Pa /usr/games
544.It Sy include/
545source for files in
546.Pa /usr/include
547.It Sy lib/
548source for libraries in
549.Pa /usr/lib
550.It Sy libexec/
551source for utilities/files in
552.Pa /usr/libexec
553.It Sy sbin/
554source for utilities/files in
555.Pa /sbin
556.It Sy share/
557source for files in
558.Pa /usr/share
559.Pp
560.Bl -tag -width "doc/" -compact
561.It Sy doc/
562.Pp
563.Bl -tag -width "papers/" -compact
564.It Sy papers/
565source for various Berkeley technical papers
566.It Sy psd/
567source for Programmer's Supplementary Documents
568.It Sy smm/
569source for System Manager's Manual
570.It Sy usd/
571source for User's Supplementary Documents
572.Pp
573.El
574.El
575.It Sy sys/
576kernel source files
577.Pp
578.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact
579.It Sy adosfs/
580AmigaDOS file-system support; see
581.Xr mount_ados 8
582.It Sy arch/
583.Pp
584.Bl -tag -width "powerpc/" -compact
585.It Sy alpha/
586support for the Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha architecture
587.It Sy amiga/
588support for the Amiga architecture
589.It Sy arm32/
590support for the ARM32 architecture
591.It Sy atari/
592support for the Atari architecture
593.It Sy bebox/
594support for the Be Inc. BeBox architecture
595.It Sy hp300/
596support for the Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 68000-based workstations
597.It Sy i386/
598support for the Intel 386/486/Pentium/etc. workstations
599.It Sy m68k/
600general support for the 68000 processor
601.It Sy mac68k/
602support for the Apple Computer 68000-based workstations
603.It Sy mips/
604general support for MIPS architectures
605.It Sy mvme68k/
606support for the VME 68000-based cards
607.It Sy pc532/
608support for the pc532 architecture
609.It Sy pica/
610support for the Acer PICA architecture
611.It Sy pmax/
612support for the MIPS-based DECstation architecture
613.It Sy powerpc/
614support for the PowerPC architecture
615.It Sy sparc/
616support for the Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture
617.It Sy sun3/
618support for the Sun Microsystems 68000-based architecture
619.It Sy sun3x/
620more support for the Sun Microsystems 68000-based architecture
621.It Sy vax/
622Digital Equipment Corp. VAX architecture
623.It Sy x68k/
624support for the x68k architecture
625.El
626.Pp
627.It Sy compat/
628kernel compatibility modules directory
629.Pp
630.Bl -tag -width "ossaudio/" -compact
631.It Sy common/
632common compatibility routines, old
633.Bx 4
634and
635.Nx
636routines.
637.It Sy freebsd/
638support for
639.Fx
640binaries; see
641.Xr compat_freebsd 8
642.It Sy hpux/
643support for 68000 HP-UX binaries
644.It Sy ibcs2/
645support for Intel Binary binaries
646.It Sy linux/
647support for Linux binaries; see
648.Xr compat_linux 8
649.It Sy m68k4k/
650support for 4Kb page 68000 binaries
651.It Sy osf1/
652support for
653.Tn Digital
654.Ux
655.Po
656formerly
657.Tn OSF/1
658.Pc
659binaries
660.It Sy ossaudio/
661support for OSS audio
662.It Sy sunos/
663support for
664.Tn SunOS 4.x
665binaries; see
666.Xr compat_sunos 8
667.It Sy svr4/
668support for System V Release 4 binaries; see
669.Xr compat_svr4 8
670.It Sy ultrix/
671support for
672.Tn Ultrix
673binaries
674.El
675.Pp
676.It Sy conf/
677architecture independent configuration directory
678.It Sy ddb/
679in kernel debugger
680.It Sy dev/
681architecture independent device support
682.It Sy gdbscripts/
683support for accessing kernel structures from within the debugger
684.Xr gdb 1 .
685.It Sy ipkdb/
686support for kernel debugging over the network
687.It Sy isofs/
688support for ISO filesystems
689.Pp
690.Bl -tag -width "cd9660/" -compact
691.It Sy cd9660/
692support for the ISO-9660 filesystem; see
693.Xr mount_cd9660 8
694.El
695.Pp
696.It Sy kern/
697support for the high kernel (system calls)
698.It Sy lib/
699kernel libraries
700.Pp
701.Bl -tag -width "libkern/" -compact
702.It Sy libkern/
703C library routines used in the kernel
704.It Sy libsa/
705machine independant stand alone kernel library
706.It Sy libz/
707compression library
708.El
709.Pp
710.It Sy lkm/
711loadable kernel modules
712.Pp
713.Bl -tag -width "netinet/" -compact
714.It Sy compat/
715LKM support compatibility modules;  currently unsupported.
716.It Sy netinet/
717LKM support networking modules
718.Pp
719.Bl -tag -width "if_ipl/" -compact
720.It Sy if_ipl/
721LKM for IP-Filter
722.El
723.Pp
724.It Sy vfs/
725LKM support for file systems.
726.El
727.Pp
728.It Sy miscfs/
729miscellaneous file systems
730.Pp
731.Bl -tag -width "deadfs/" -compact
732.It Sy deadfs/
733kernel only dead file system
734.It Sy fdesc/
735file descriptor file system; see
736.Xr mount_fdesc 8
737.It Sy fifofs/
738POSIX FIFO support
739.It Sy genfs/
740kernel only generic file system
741.It Sy kernfs/
742kernel namespace file system; see
743.Xr mount_kernfs 8
744.It Sy nullfs/
745loop back file system; see
746.Xr mount_null 8
747.It Sy portal/
748portal file system; see
749.Xr mount_portal 8
750.It Sy procfs/
751process file system; see
752.Xr mount_procfs 8
753.It Sy specfs/
754kernel only special file system
755.It Sy umapfs/
756user and group re-mapping file system; see
757.Xr mount_umap 8
758.It Sy union/
759union file system; see
760.Xr mount_union 8
761.El
762.Pp
763.It Sy msdosfs/
764.Tn MS-DOS
765file system; see
766.Xr mount_msdos 8
767.It Sy net/
768miscellaneous networking support
769.It Sy netccitt/
770CCITT
771networking support
772.It Sy netinet/
773TCP/IP networking support
774.It Sy netiso/
775ISO
776networking support
777.It Sy netnatm/
778ATM networking support
779.It Sy netns/
780XNS networking support
781.It Sy nfs/
782NFS support
783.It Sy stand/
784kernel standalone support
785.It Sy sys/
786kernel (and system) include files
787.It Sy ufs/
788local filesystem support
789.Pp
790.Bl -tag -width "ffs/" -compact
791.It Sy ffs/
792the Berkeley Fast File System
793.It Sy lfs/
794the log-structured file system
795.It Sy mfs/
796the in-memory file system
797.It Sy ufs/
798shared
799.Ux
800file system support
801.El
802.It Sy vm/
803virtual memory support
804.El
805.It Sy usr.bin/
806source for utilities/files in
807.Pa /usr/bin
808.It Sy usr.sbin/
809source for utilities/files in
810.Pa /usr/sbin
811.El
812.It Sy /var/
813multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
814.Pp
815.Bl -tag -width "preserve/" -compact
816.It Sy account/
817system accounting files
818.Pp
819.Bl -tag -width "acct" -compact
820.It Sy acct
821execution accounting file;
822see
823.Xr acct 5
824.El
825.Pp
826.It Sy at/
827timed command scheduling files;
828see
829.Xr at 1
830.It Sy backups/
831miscellaneous backup files, largely of files found in
832.Pa /etc
833.It Sy crash/
834system crash dumps; see
835.Xr savecore 8
836.It Sy db/
837miscellaneous automatically generated system-specific database files
838.It Sy games/
839miscellaneous game status and log files
840.It Sy log/
841miscellaneous system log files
842.Pp
843.Bl -tag -width "monthly.out" -compact
844.It Sy amd.*
845.Xr amd 8
846logs
847.It Sy daily.out
848output of the last run of the
849.Pa /etc/daily
850script
851.It Sy ftp.*
852.Xr ftp 1
853logs
854.It Sy kerberos.*
855.Xr kerberos 1
856logs
857.It Sy lastlog
858system last time logged in log; see
859.Xr utmp 5
860.It Sy lpd-errs.*
861printer daemon error logs; see
862.Xr lpd 8
863.It Sy maillog.*
864.Xr sendmail 8
865log files
866.It Sy messages.*
867general system information log
868.It Sy monthly.out
869output of the last run of the
870.Pa /etc/monthly
871script
872.It Sy secure
873sensitive security information log
874.It Sy sendmail.st
875.Xr sendmail 8
876statistics
877.It Sy timed.*
878.Xr timed 8
879logs
880.It Sy weekly.out
881output of the last run of the
882.Pa /etc/weekly
883script
884.It Sy wtmp
885login/logout log;
886see
887.Xr utmp 5
888.El
889.Pp
890.It Sy mail/
891user system mailboxes
892.It Sy msgs/
893system messages; see
894.Xr msgs 1
895.\" since we use nvi (now called vi) this isn't the place any more, is it?
896.It Sy preserve/
897temporary home of files preserved after an accidental death of
898.Xr ex 1
899or
900.Xr vi 1
901.It Sy quotas/
902filesystem quota information
903.It Sy run/
904system information files, rebuilt after each reboot
905.Pp
906.Bl -tag -width "utmp" -compact
907.It Sy utmp
908database of current users; see
909.Xr utmp 5
910.El
911.Pp
912.It Sy rwho/
913rwho data files; see
914.Xr rwhod 8 ,
915.Xr rwho 1 ,
916and
917.Xr ruptime 1
918.It Sy spool/
919miscellaneous printer and mail system spooling directories
920.Pp
921.Bl -tag -width "uucppublic/" -compact
922.It Sy ftp/
923commonly
924.Dq ~ftp ,
925the anonymous ftp root directory; see
926.Xr ftpd 8
927.It Sy mqueue/
928undelivered mail queue;
929see
930.Xr sendmail 8
931.It Sy news/
932Network news archival and spooling directories
933.It Sy output/
934printer spooling directories
935.It Sy uucp/
936uucp spool directory
937.It Sy uucppublic/
938commonly
939.Dq ~uucp ,
940the uucp public temporary directory; see
941.Xr uucp 1
942.El
943.Pp
944.It Sy tmp/
945temporary files that are not discarded between system reboots
946.Pp
947.Bl -tag -width "vi.recover/" -compact
948.It Sy vi.recover/
949recovery directory for new
950.Xr vi 1
951.El
952.El
953.El
954.Sh SEE ALSO
955.Xr apropos 1 ,
956.Xr ls 1 ,
957.Xr whatis 1 ,
958.Xr whereis 1 ,
959.Xr which 1 ,
960.Sh HISTORY
961A
962.Nm
963manual page appeared in
964.At v7 .
965