the user who owns it, for example, /home/jane. If you're using a
large system at a school or business, your system administrator
may create additional directories to contain home directories:
/home1 and /home2 for example. On some other systems, you'll see
an additional level of subdirectories: /home/students/username,
/home/staff/username, etc.

Your home directory is where you put all your personal work,
e-mail and other documents, and personal configuration
preferences. It's your home on the system.

/bin
This directory contains ``binaries,'' executable files that are
essential to the operation of the system. Examples are the shell
(bash) and file commands such as cp.

/sbin
This directory contains ``system binaries,'' utilities that the
root user or system administrator might want to use, but that you
probably won't want to use in your day-to-day activities.

/usr
/usr contains most of the files you'll be interested in. It has
many subdirectories. /usr/bin and /usr/sbin are pretty much like
/bin and /sbin, except that the directories in /usr are not
considered ``essential to the operation of the system.''

While not essential to getting the computer working, /usr does
contain the applications you'll use to get real work done. Also in
/usr, you'll find the /usr/man, /usr/info, and /usr/doc