File structure in Gentoo

[anchorman082589]

I'm a tad of a newbie and i was wondering if sombody could explain to me the file structure in gentoo and linux as a whole (which folders holds what type of files)

Thanks in advance,

Dan
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http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
Gentoo tends to stick to that.

As for portage specific stuff...
/usr/portage contains all ebuilds and the tarballs they download (/usr/portage/distfiles)
/etc/portage contains places to set package specific stuff such as USE flags, keywords (if you want a package in ~arch without putting ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" in /etc/make.conf), and unmasking/masking packages
/var/tmp/portage is where portage plops stuff it's working with at the moment (untarred files, where compilation actually takes place, etc.)
/var/lib/portage is where your world file is stored as well as a file called config which seems to contain md5sums of some important files
/var/db/pkg contains info about the packages you specifically have installed (don't muck around in there it's important)