FILE-HIERARCHY(7)

✨ FILE-HIERARCHY(7) ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for file-hierarchy — and no cap, it's literally the blueprint for how your whole systemd situation is laid out 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

file-hierarchy — the systemd file system hierarchy requirements, aka the rules of the land 🏰

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, operating systems that run the systemd(1) system and service manager? they're organized based on a file system hierarchy that's inspired by UNIX, exactly as described in UAPI.9 Linux File System Hierarchy[1]. periodt. 💖

and there's more — extra requirements about when given parts of the hierarchy have to be available during boot are listed in Mount Requirements[2]. so it's not just where things live, it's when they show up. timing is everything, iykyk ✨

also bestie, a lot of the paths described in here can be queried with the systemd-path(1) tool 🫶 like you don't even have to guess, just ask.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• hier(7)
• File System Hierarchy[3]
• XDG Base Directory Specification[4]
• XDG User Directories[5]

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💜 NOTES 💜

1. UAPI.9 Linux File System Hierarchy https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/linux_file_system_hierarchy/
2. Mount Requirements https://systemd.io/MOUNT_REQUIREMENTS/
3. File System Hierarchy http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html
4. XDG Base Directory Specification https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
5. XDG User Directories https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🌈 this one's from systemd 262.1, so when you see FILE-HIERARCHY(7) floating around, that's your girl. mwah 💋 go read your file system, it's giving organized 👑