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hier.7: Updating from FHS 2.3 to 3.0 

Adding description of new directories (/run, /usr/libexec,
/usr/share/color,/usr/share/ppd, /var/lib/color), stating
/usr/X11R6 as removed and updating URL to and version of FHS.

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206693

Reported-by: Gary Perkins <glperkins@lit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Piekarski <t.piekarski@deloquencia.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Thomas Piekarski 2020-05-19 17:34:33 +02:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ This pseudo-filesystem is described in more detail in
.I /root
This directory is usually the home directory for the root user (optional).
.TP
.I /run
This directory contains information which describes the system since it was booted.
Once this purpose was served by
.IR /var/run
and programs may continue to use it.
.TP
.I /sbin
Like
.IR /bin ,
@ -186,7 +192,8 @@ It should hold only shareable, read-only data, so that it can be mounted
by various machines running Linux.
.TP
.I /usr/X11R6
The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (optional).
The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (present in FHS 2.3, removed
in FHS 3.0).
.TP
.I /usr/X11R6/bin
Binaries which belong to the X\-Window system; often, there is a
@ -296,6 +303,10 @@ which usually are not invoked directly.
More complicated programs may
have whole subdirectories there.
.TP
.I /usr/libexec
Directory contains binaries for internal use only and they are not meant
to be executed directly by users shell or scripts.
.TP
.I /usr/lib<qual>
These directories are variants of
.I /usr/lib
@ -385,6 +396,10 @@ or
or
.IR /usr/man .
.TP
.I /usr/share/color
Contains color management information, like International Color Consortium (ICC)
Color profiles (optional).
.TP
.I /usr/share/dict
Contains the word lists used by spell checkers (optional).
.TP
@ -421,6 +436,9 @@ same OS.
.I /usr/share/nls
The message catalogs for native language support go here (optional).
.TP
.I /usr/share/ppd
Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files (optional).
.TP
.I /usr/share/sgml
Files for SGML (optional).
.TP
@ -523,6 +541,9 @@ Variable game data (optional).
.I /var/lib
Variable state information for programs.
.TP
.I /var/lib/color
Variable files containing color management information (optional).
.TP
.I /var/lib/hwclock
State directory for hwclock (optional).
.TP
@ -635,11 +656,11 @@ this directory holds temporary files stored for an unspecified duration.
Database files for NIS,
formerly known as the Sun Yellow Pages (YP).
.SH CONFORMING TO
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, Version 2.3
.UR http://www.pathname.com\:/fhs/
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), Version 3.0, published March 19, 2015
.UR https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml
.UE .
.SH BUGS
This list is not exhaustive; different systems may be configured
This list is not exhaustive; different distributions and systems may be configured
differently.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR find (1),