文件系统布局

Haiku 的文件系统布局是非常清晰，尽量使用简单的名字为文件和文件夹命名，让用户不会产生疑问。对于维持系统的正常运行非常重要的文件和文件夹是受到保护的，当它们发生意外的更改时，系统将会弹出以下警告：

如果您重命名或者删除了系统级别的内容，那么系统将会弹出第二类警告。在此菜单上，“Rename” 按钮只有在您按下 SHIFT 键时才能够点击。

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.

系统文件夹 - /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.

home文件夹 - /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: