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This is the root directory for iOS. The firmware listing of these folders follow very closely to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

Children

Folders

• .ba
• .HFS+ Private Directory Data (not present in the newer iOS versions)
• .mb
• AppleInternal (Apple Internal apps and prototypes; only present in some internal iOS versions)
• Applications
• bin
• boot (not present in the newer iOS versions)
• cores
• dev
• Developer
• etc (symlink to /private/etc)
• Library
• lib (not present in jailed iOS)
• mnt
• private
• sbin
• System
• tmp (symlink to /private/var/tmp)
• User (symlink to /private/var/mobile (/private/var/root on iPhone OS 1.1.2 and below)
• usr
• var (symlink to /private/var)

Files

• .file
• .Trashes

External Links

• Filesystem Hierachy Standard 2.3
• File System Basics (Apple)