You will be issued one permanent personal bglinux account that you will use for both class and personal use for as long as you are at BGSU. Relationship between a personal directory and the class directory For symbolic links (like cs2xxx above) shows the file being pointed to
Directories like bin, usr and etc contain certain system level information and are maintained by a system administrator. There is a preset meaning to certain directories.
#FOLDER STRUCTURE DIAGRAM PERSONAL HOW TO#
That is, the user does not decide how to set up all of the directories.
The structure and content of many of the directories is similar on various UNIX implementations. A directory on Unix is similar to a folder on a microcomputer. UNIX has a tree-like file system starting at the highest level with a directory called root (referred to as /).