Two different kinds of filesystem, covered separately — the real on-disk FHS layout every Linux install follows, and /proc, a virtual window into kernel data that only looks like real files.

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Linux Filesystem Hierarchy FHS

Complete standard directory structure present right after a bare-metal install — where package installation and configuration files land across the tree.

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/proc Directory Reference Virtual

The process information pseudo-filesystem — a virtual interface to kernel data structures, generated on the fly rather than stored on disk.

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