16.4 A Larger Picture of the Filesystem 233
cd /
We’ll see a prompt which looks like:
[billy@localhost /]$
Now, let’s see which directories “branch off” root by typing:
ls
Doesn’t look like much, does it? Well, it’s a little like viewing the tip of an iceberg. These are the
parent directories of other directories, in which there may be other directories. . . and so on.
Figure 16.9: Getting of view of the directories from root
Here are just a few of the directories we’re likely to find:
etc lib sbin
usr var
There are more, but let’s take a look in the /etc directory.
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