Thursday, May 17, 2018

12.04 - Which Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is in Ubuntu?




Which File system Hierarchy Standard Does Ubuntu 12.04 Using ? & What are the changes ?




On wikipedia the latest version is v3.0 (2012-07-01)



The current version is still 2.3 (2004) and Ubuntu, like Debian, is based on that. At the Linux Foundation it is noted that





The FHS 3 specification is currently under development.




They aimed to release it by 1 July this year as this article describes, so the date you saw on wikipedia was merely this date they had earmarked. It hasn't actually been released yet at the time I am writing (12 September 2012). The changes haven't been decided fully, but there are some useful links in the link above (such as the fhs mailing-lists discussion and there is a discussion at lwn.net.



More details on the existing specifications are available at the Linux Foundation.







For more general information, two great questions on this site explain the filesystem hierarchy well:




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