How to mod the / folder on linux

required

• root (admin) permissions
• a text editor
• basic knowledge of the command line interface

How to do it?

Step 1

create the desired directory

Step 2

create a .hidden file at / (only works on modern systems)

Step 3

add the name of the directories that you don't want to the .hidden file. this will make those folders appear as hidden files for more recent file managers. old file managers (and the ls command) might still display those as normal files. for example, if you want to change the user's folder from /home to /users, you would add home to this file.

Step 4

mount those directories in a bind to some other directory:

$ sudo mount --bind /path/to/originaldirectory /path/to/newdirectory

this will make a link to the new directories that will still allow them to read and write to the original directories, while not appearing as links but as proper directories.

Step 5

add the bind mount to /etc/fstab by adding:

/path/to/originaldirectory /path/to/newdirectory none bind 0 0

to /etc/fstab

and you're finished!

now your system has a cool new root folder hierarchy!