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Revision as of 11:25, 27 January 2020
Introduction
The Ghost/FreeBSD directory hierarchy is fundamental to obtaining an overall understanding of the system. The most important directory is root or, “/”. This directory is the first one mounted at boot time and it contains the base system necessary to prepare the operating system for multi-user operation. The root directory also contains mount points for other file systems that are mounted during the transition to multi-user operation.
A mount point is a directory where additional file systems can be grafted onto a parent file system (usually the root file system). This is further described in FreeBSD Handbook Section 3.6, “Disk Organization”.
Standard mount points include
: /usr/ : /var/ : /tmp/ : /mnt/ : /cdrom/
These directories are usually referenced to entries in
/etc/fstab
This file is a table of various file systems and mount points and is read by the system. Most of the file systems in
/etc/fstab
are mounted automatically at boot time from the script
rc(8)
unless their entry includes noauto. Details can be found in FreeBSD Handbook Section 3.7.1 “The fstab File”.
