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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

If my /bin contains exe files, something has gone very wrong somewhere...

Also, all these infographics are a sad casualty of the /usr/bin merge.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Linux file system is ext* tho.

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

/bin confused me for a while because I thought it meant 'this stuff is trash, don't worry about it'.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why is /mnt a "temporary" mounting point? I alwags put my permanent ones there. I'd say /media is temporary...

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[–] amw3i7dwgoblinlabs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

huh... an exe in my /bin ?

sus...

[–] michdavelz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it just me, or are the definitions for /sys and /proc mixed up?

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Nah, it's just that /proc is incorrect - it contains information about running processes, as well as kernel data structures as visible by the process reading them.

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[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

reminded me of this picture

[–] elvith@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since almost everything on the right would be located in /home/ on the left, it should include some of the subdirectories of %windir%\

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

idk if unix or linux file system

[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

wow i have needed this forever and im printing it and pinning it to my wall

Yes, you put the app in /opt, no not in /bin or /usr/bin

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Not when I use it!

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

A blast from the past!

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