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FWIW, I think the true Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see other comments on this page) is a much better reference.

`man hier`

Wow. How would one go about discovering this?

apropos hierarchy

apropos 'file system'

`man man` leads you to `man -k "file system"` (or apropos, as mentioned), leads you to ...

Very cool - thanks for mentionning this !

There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Filesystem_Hierarchy_St... too. Probably Arch-specific, but I bet most stuff applies to Unix in general as well.