History
The process of developing a standard filesystem hierarchy began in August 1993 with an effort to restructure the file and directory structure of Linux-based operating systems. The FSSTND (Filesystem Standard), a filesystem hierarchy standard specific to the Linux operating system, was released on 14 February 1994. Subsequent revisions were released on 9 October 1994 and 28 March 1995.
In early 1996, the goal of developing a more comprehensive version of FSSTND to address not only Linux, but other Unix-like systems was adopted with the help of members of the BSD development community. As a result, a concerted effort was made to focus on issues that were general to Unix-like systems. In recognition of this widening of scope, the name of the standard was changed to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
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