February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second Edition
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Appendix A. The Mac OS X Filesystem
If you do an ls -a / on your Mac OS X box, you will see some familiar things, such as /etc and /var, but you will also notice some unfamiliar things, such as /TheVolumeSettingsFolder, /Library, and /Documents. The Mac OS X filesystem contains traces of Unix, NeXTSTEP, and Mac OS 9. This appendix describes the contents of important directories. The tables in this chapter list directory entries (directories are denoted with a trailing slash) and provide a description of each file or directory.
Files and Directories
Table A-1 describes the files and directories you may find in your root directory. The remaining tables in this chapter describe significant subdirectories.
Table A-1. Mac OS X’s root directory
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File or directory |
Description |
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Contains Finder settings, such as icon location and window size. The file will appear in any directory that you’ve viewed with the Finder. |
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Contains a list of files that should be invisible to the Finder. |
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Used by Panther’s Hot File Adaptive Clustering, which automatically defragments frequently accessed files that are under 20 MB in size. |
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Contains files that have been dragged to the Trash. On a boot volume, such files are stored in ~/.Trash. On a non-boot volume, these files are in /.Trashes/uid/. |
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Maps HFS+ file IDs to files. If you know a file’s ID, you can open it using /.vol/id. |
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Holds all your Mac OS X applications. Its Utilities ... |
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