ファイルシステムの設計

Haikuのファイルシステムの設計は完全に透過的で、ファイルやフォルダーに暗号めいていない名前を使うよう常に努力しています。 システムが正しく機能するために重要なファイルやフォルダーについては、次のような警告を表示することで不慮の操作からそれらを保護します:

システム階層下の何かをリネームまたは削除しようとすると、第二の警告が表示されます。 "Rename" ボタンは SHIFT キーを押している間だけクリックできます。

Generally, there are two separate branches springing from the root folder of the boot volume:

As long as Haiku isn't multi-user, this distinction between shared and not-shared applications/packages has no apparent effect, as there's only one user with one home folder. But since there will be support for more users than one eventually, it makes sense to learn the right way from the start.

システムフォルダー - /boot/system/

Under Haiku's predecessor BeOS, this folder was named /boot/beos/. You may still find it in some older documentation (e.g. in the original BeBook).
Most of the folders inside /boot/system/ are read-only, which is sensible as they contain the files necessary for Haiku to function correctly and therefore have to be safe from (accidental) alteration. The only user-writable folders are:

For more information on the packages and non-packaged folders, see topic Installing applications.

ホームフォルダー - /boot/home/

This folder belongs to you. Here you can create and delete files and folders as you wish. (By the way, the tilde ("~") is a shortcut for your home folder, so you don't always have to write "/boot/home/" in Terminal.)
Files that you'd like to share with other users in a future multi-user environment have do be put outside /boot/home/. For example, you could create a folder /boot/all-users/ and put the stuff there.

The folder /boot/home/config/ is special: just like /boot/system/ it's mostly under the control of the package management and therefore read-only. It too contains these similar user-writable folders:

For more information on the packages and non-packaged folders, see topic Installing applications.

Here are some of the more interesting subfolders in ~/config/settings: