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Notes:

This is a typical view of the filesystem of any UNIX derivative (GNU, BSD, Solaris, AIX etc). Standardisation means that application software can follow some rules and be compatible across platforms (e.g. Sendmail always delivers local email to /var/spool/mail/ )

This tree structure is important to visualise, otherwise some paths and commands won't make much sense.

This image shows only a small subset of files and folders of a GNU/Linux system – there are considerably more in a real system!