Let's now create the directory tree on the LFS partition based on the FHS standard, which can be found at . Issuing the following commands will create a default directory layout: mkdir -p /{bin,boot,dev/pts,etc/opt,home,lib,mnt,proc} && mkdir -p /{root,sbin,tmp,usr/local,var,opt} && for dirname in /usr /usr/local     do     mkdir $dirname/{bin,etc,include,lib,sbin,share,src}     ln -s share/{man,doc,info} $dirname     mkdir $dirname/share/{dict,doc,info,locale,man}     mkdir $dirname/share/{nls,misc,terminfo,zoneinfo}     mkdir $dirname/share/man/man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} done && mkdir /var/{lock,log,mail,run,spool} && mkdir -p /var/{tmp,opt,cache,lib/misc,local} && mkdir /opt/{bin,doc,include,info} && mkdir -p /opt/{lib,man/man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}} && ln -s ../var/tmp /usr Normally, directories are created with permission mode 755, which isn't desired for all directories. The first change is a mode 0750 for the /root directory. This is to make sure that not just everybody can enter the /root directory (the same a user would do with his /home/username directory). The second change is a mode 1777 for the tmp directories. In this way any user can write to the /tmp and /var/tmp directories, but cannot remove other users's files from them (the latter is prohibited by the so-called "sticky bit" -- bit 1 in the 1777 bit mask). chmod 0750 /root && chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp Now that the directories are created, copy the source files that were downloaded in chapter 3 to some subdirectory under /usr/src (you will need to create the desired directory yourself). 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. 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 were needed.