The layout of the directory hierarchy — questions like “where does this file belong?” or “what is this directory for?”.
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What is the equivalent of /usr/share/misc on Solaris?
The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard has the following to say:
This directory contains miscellaneous architecture-independent files which don't require a separate subdirectory under /usr/share.
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Directory/file naming conventions when storing media collection on Linux
I am building a NAS/HTPC that will operate under Debian (Wheezy, probably). I am trying to design the directory schema for what will be stored on the server so that everything is nice and uniform for ...
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How to safely remove hard-link to home folder?
In a folder owned by my user /sites/Website there is a dir named ~.
When I cd to this directory, I am redirected to ~/, my home folder.
At first I thought this was a symbolic link, but doing ls ...
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/media, /mnt, /run and automounting
As of Fedora15, a new directory under root was introduced. A couple of quotes:
i.e. /var is "persistant runtime data" and /run
is "volatile runtime data", and /etc is "persistant system config
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