A project for UNIX by Chad Rittenhouse during the Fall 2011.

This project was begun on 09/20/2011 and is anticipated to take 1 week. Dates may change!!!!

State the purpose of this project. What is the point of this project? What do we hope to accomplish by undertaking it?

In order to successfully accomplish/perform this project, the listed resources/experiences need to be consulted/achieved:

• cd command
• ls
• -l argument to ls
• understanding of paths, absolute and relative

State the idea or purpose of the project. What are you attempting to pursue?

Upon approval, you'll want to fill this section out with more detailed background information. DO NOT JUST PROVIDE A LINK.

Providing any links to original source material, such as from a project page, is a good idea.

You'll want to give a general overview of what is going to be accomplished (for example, if your project is about installing a web server, do a little write-up on web servers. What is it, why do we need one, how does it work, etc.)

To get a better understanding of the layout and structure of the UNIX filesystem, an exploration is in order. Using your observation skills and references, explore the various major directories on the system (starting with '/') and describing the intended purpose of each directory:

1. what types of files does it contain (regular, directory, special)
2. what is the organizational value of that directory (config files, basic tools, admin tools, etc.)

Some of the directories you will want to explore are:

• /
• /bin
• /dev
• /etc
• /home
• /lib (/lib32 vs. /lib64)
• /mnt
• /proc
• /root
• /sbin
• /tmp
• /usr
• /var
• /var/log
• /usr/bin
• /usr/sbin
• /usr/src
• /usr/local
• /usr/local/bin
• /usr/lib

State and justify the attributes you'd like to receive upon successful approval and completion of this project.

• files and directories: files and directories are the focus of analysis in this exercise

The actual steps taken to accomplish the project. Include images, code snippets, command-line excerpts; whatever is useful for intuitively communicating important information for accomplishing the project.

Comments/thoughts generated through performing the project, observations made, analysis rendered, conclusions wrought. What did you learn from doing this project?

In performing this project, the following resources were referenced:

• URL1
• URL2
• URL3 (provides useful information on topic)
• URL4

Generally, state where you got informative and useful information to help you accomplish this project when you originally worked on it (from Google, other wiki documents on the Lab46 wiki, etc.)