Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

The filesystem hierarchy

The most obvious conventions that may come into your mind are probably about filesystem hierarchy and user naming. If you are looking for such suggestions here, then you will be disappointed. There is, of course, a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) that defines the directory structure and directory contents in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, but it is really hard to find the actual OS distribution that is fully compliant with FHS. If system designers and programmers cannot obey such standards, it is very hard to expect the same from its administrators. During my experience, I've seen application code deployed almost everywhere it is possible, including nonstandard custom directories in the root filesystem ...