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afriaen

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Registered: 2021-07-22

Posts: 2

Directory Structure Map of Fully Functional Base Arch OS

Hello

I am new here, thank you for having me

I am pretty sure it does not exist, but I would love to have a map of the basic directory structure of a functional Arch OS.

The structure that allows all the hardware to function as expected.

It would serve as a roadmap in this jungle of, for me, new concepts.

The biggest issue for learning I find is that there are many ways to do things and if one tries them out one leaves traces everywhere in the system. It becomes messy like that and I would like to clean it up. Yet I got to be careful not to break things.

I learn a lot but it's also a mess.

A map would do wonders. I could then delete anything that is redundant/useless and make sure that everything that needs to be there will be there (but also not more than that)

Any chance anyone has made such a map of his/hers working setup for fun and would want to share it with me?

Thank you!

Regards

afriaen

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,009

Re: Directory Structure Map of Fully Functional Base Arch OS

The structure that allows all the hardware to function as expected.

That requirement is not simple to fulfill.  All hardware covers a massive amount.  Some just needs a kernel module from the linux package,  may also require firmware a lot of which is contained in linux-firmware.
Beyond that you may need to build a kernel module from AUR or there may be no driver in existence.
You also have tools to control the hardware such numerous Network managers.

For untracked system files see Tips_and_tricks#Identify_files_not_owned_by_any_package
For untracked user files,  I would suggest using a temporary user for experiments.