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+<sect1 id="ch05-creatingdirs">
+<title>Creating directories</title>
+<?dbhtml filename="creatingdirs.html" dir="chapter05"?>
+
+<para>Let's now create the directory tree on the LFS partition based on
+the FHS standard, which can be found at
+<ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/">http://www.pathname.com/fhs/</ulink>.
+Issuing the following commands will create a default directory layout:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>cd $LFS &amp;&amp;
+mkdir -p bin boot dev/pts etc/opt home lib mnt proc root sbin tmp var opt &amp;&amp;
+for dirname in $LFS/usr $LFS/usr/local
+<literal>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;do</literal>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mkdir $dirname
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cd $dirname
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mkdir bin etc include lib sbin share src var
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ln -s share/man
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ln -s share/doc
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ln -s share/info
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cd $dirname/share
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mkdir dict doc info locale man nls misc terminfo zoneinfo
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cd $dirname/share/man
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mkdir man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
+done &amp;&amp;
+cd $LFS/var &amp;&amp;
+mkdir -p lock log mail run spool tmp opt cache lib/misc local &amp;&amp;
+cd $LFS/opt &amp;&amp;
+mkdir bin doc include info lib man &amp;&amp;
+cd $LFS/usr &amp;&amp;
+ln -s ../var/tmp</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Normally, directories are created with permission mode 755, which isn't
+desired for all directories. The first change is a mode 0750 for the
+$LFS/root directory. This is to make sure that not just everybody can
+enter the /root directory (the same a user would do with /home/username
+directories). The second change is a mode 1777 for the tmp
+directories. This way, any user can write data to the /tmp or /var/tmp
+directory but cannot remove another user's files (the latter is caused
+by the so-called "sticky bit" - bit 1 of the 1777 bit mask).</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>cd $LFS &amp;&amp;
+chmod 0750 root &amp;&amp;
+chmod 1777 tmp var/tmp</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Now that the directories are created, copy the source files that were
+downloaded in chapter 3 to some subdirectory under $LFS/usr/src (you
+will need to create the desired directory yourself).</para>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>FHS compliance notes</title>
+
+<para>The FHS stipulates that the /usr/local directory should contain the
+bin, games,include, lib, man, sbin, and share subdirectories. You can
+alter your /usr/local directory yourself if you want your system
+to be FHS-compliant.</para>
+
+<para>Also, the standard says that there should exist a /usr/share/games
+directory, which we don't much like for a base system. But feel free to
+make your system FHS-compliant if you wish. The FHS isn't precise as
+to the structure of the /usr/local/share subdirectories, so we took the
+liberty of creating the directories that we felt needed.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+