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							- <sect1 id="ch06-creatingdirs">
 
- <title>Creating directories</title>
 
- <?dbhtml filename="creatingdirs.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
- <para>Let's now create the directory tree on the LFS partition based on
 
- the FHS standard, which can be found at
 
- <ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/"/>.
 
- Issuing the following commands will create a default directory layout:</para>
 
-  
 
- <para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p /{bin,boot,dev/pts,etc/opt,home,lib,mnt,proc} &&
 
- mkdir -p /{root,sbin,tmp,usr,usr/local,var,opt} &&
 
- for dirname in /usr /usr/local
 
-     do
 
-     mkdir $dirname/{bin,etc,include,lib,sbin,share,src}
 
-     ln -s share/{man,doc,info} $dirname
 
-     mkdir $dirname/share/{dict,doc,info,locale,man}
 
-     mkdir $dirname/share/{nls,misc,terminfo,zoneinfo}
 
-     mkdir $dirname/share/man/man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
 
- done &&
 
- mkdir /var/{lock,log,mail,run,spool} &&
 
- mkdir -p /var/{tmp,opt,cache,lib/misc,local} &&
 
- mkdir /opt/{bin,doc,include,info} &&
 
- mkdir -p /opt/{lib,man/man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}} &&
 
- ln -s ../var/tmp /usr</userinput></screen></para>
 
- <para>Normally, directories are created with permission mode 755, which isn't
 
- desired for all directories. The first change is a mode 0750 for the 
 
- /root directory. This is to make sure that not just everybody can 
 
- enter the /root directory (the same a user would do with his /home/username 
 
- directory). The second change is a mode 1777 for the tmp 
 
- directories. In this way any user can write to the /tmp and /var/tmp 
 
- directories, but cannot remove other users's files from them (the latter is prohibited
 
- by the so-called "sticky bit" -- bit 1 in the 1777 bit mask).</para>
 
- <para><screen><userinput>chmod 0750 /root &&
 
- chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp</userinput></screen></para>
 
- <para>Now that the directories are created, copy the source files that were
 
- downloaded in chapter 3 to some subdirectory under /usr/src (you
 
- will need to create the desired directory yourself).</para>
 
- <sect2>
 
- <title>FHS compliance notes</title>
 
- <para>The FHS stipulates that the /usr/local directory should contain the
 
- bin, games, include, lib, man, sbin, and share subdirectories. You can
 
- alter your /usr/local directory yourself if you want your system to be
 
- FHS-compliant.</para>
 
- <para>Also, the standard says that there should exist a /usr/share/games 
 
- directory, which we don't much like for a base system. But feel free to 
 
- make your system FHS-compliant if you wish. The FHS isn't precise as 
 
- to the structure of the /usr/local/share subdirectories, so we took the 
 
- liberty of creating the directories that we felt were needed.</para>
 
- </sect2>
 
- </sect1>
 
 
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