Filesystem Hierarchy Standard was created on 1994-02-14.
What was created to define a standard directory structure and common file loc
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard..... It is a tree like directory system, all Linux operating system use it....
The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy is used to help determine the file structure in the Linux Operating System. It defines the Directory structure and directory contents.
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the main directories and their contents in Linux operating systems
Each OS has some sort of filesystem. They also have some software to access this filesystem. This allows for a logical hierarchy for storing files.
Linux uses a unified filesystem structure that complies with the filesystem hierarchy standard, which, while not always immediately intuitive, is designed to make it an easier task of locating specific files on the system manually, and also to allow software written for it to be able to predict where its needed files are kept.
A Hierarchy is a government with a king and queen. The face cards in a standard 52 card poker deck represent a hierarchy.
This is fiercely dependent on your filesystem, but since the de facto standard filesystem for now is ext4, the typical maximum is 255 characters. It's not going to be practical to go over every filesystem Linux supports, so I'll just say read the manual.
For the purpose of this question, I'll stick to file systems that Linux natively supports and can boot off of.FAT12FAT16FAT32X-FAT (used on the Xbox)Minixextext2ext3ReiserFSReiser4JFSXFS
Assuming you have the filesystem mounted, the "mount" command can tell you every mounted filesystem and its type.
This is dependent on what filesystem is in use. The de facto standard filesystem in Linux is ext4, which supports up to 255 characters on its filenames. But if you are using something else it's better to look it up on Wikipedia.
Only when sharing the filesystem with another Linux system that uses an older filesystem such as ext2.