Linux Directory Structure also known as FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) and 'RootFs' defines the main directories and their contents in Linux operating systems, including Puppy. In frugal installation it is held in a series of compressed files BaseSFS, SaveFile Pup SaveFile and other SFSs.

/mnt

Any media or filesystem that is mounted will have a folder here including hard-drive partitions, cds, usbs and archive files such as SquashFS SFSs. In frugal mode only files saved in this directory will be outside the SaveFile PupSave file.

/usr/share/applications

Installed applications with a menu entry will have a link file here, see AppsDesktop .desktop files.

/etc/fstab - contains static filesystem information.

/tmp

This is the location where temporary files are stored. Do not put anything in here that needs to be kept. The savefile does not save the contents of this directory on reboot/ shutdown.

/proc

Broadly speaking contains two main groups. Numerically named directories corresponding to the process ID (PID) of a process currently executing on the system. The second file non-numerically named directories and regular files describe some aspect of kernel operation.

SaveFile Save File - filesystem file in Frugal install

FileTypes

FHS 3.0 draft (Aug 2011)

Linux Foundation's FHS page

FHS 2.3 page (2004)

FHS 2.2 page (2001)

FHS manual page

WikiPedia:Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

The Linux /proc Filesystem as a Programmers' Tool