The layout of the directory hierarchy — questions like “where does this file belong?” or “what is this directory for?”.
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Do best-practices indicate that usage of /var should be restricted to sudoers
I wrote a package, and would like to use /var to persist some data. The data I'm storing would perhaps even be thought of as an addition for /var/db.
The pattern I observe is that files in /var/db, ...
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Why do I get 3048 MB from a 64 MB flash memory?
I have a Linux based STB (set-top-box) and it features a 64 MB flash memory and 256 MB of RAM. I wanted to take a backup of some of my settings before I flash it with another image, but I wasn't sure ...
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Why is the root directory on a web server put by default in “/var/www”?
Tuxfiles says the following about the Linux directory structure:
/var:
This directory contains variable data that changes constantly when the system is running.
FHS on /var says the ...
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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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Home folder structure in Ubuntu 12.04.1?
Long story short, i just accidentally deleted my entire home folder. Thankfully it seems like the hidden files are still there.
I'm not sure, but aren't all of the folders within the home folder ...
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Where to install applications
I'm a long-time Windows user in the middle of a multi-year personal migration to Linux-based development. On Windows when I installed an application it got put in the Program Files folder and I'd ...
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Transform directory structure
I have the following folder structure
root folder
|-al2
|- GER.zip
|- ENG.zip
|-ww
|- GER.zip
|- ENG.zip
and so on. The folder names are random strings.
I want to sort the files in ...
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Why can't I navigate into my Documents directory?
I'm in bash and running F17 as su. My pwd is
/home/user
and when I ls I see
Desktop Documents Downloads Music Pictures Public Templates Videos
However, I'm unable to cd into any of these. My ...
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How does the Linux file structure work?
I see the different folders bin, dev, mnt, proc, srv, sys, etc.
What are the properties of all these different folders? What are there purposes? Are there files in some of them that I should not ...
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Why do so many programs live in PATH?
One thing that puzzles me about desktop Linux, at least, is that just about everything is in my PATH. By everything, I mean every desktop application, including things like gnome-character-map and ...
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Linking “..” do somewhere other than parent directory and other strange fs beharviors
Can the entry ".." become linked to someplace other than the parent directory? Is it possible to cause "tar" to create this weird behavior?
Scenario: I have a pre-built compiler to a embeded system, ...
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Looping over directory entries in bash and saving to an array
(See update at the foot of the question).
This is a followup question to "Make directory copies using
find".
This question involved manipulating a bunch of directories, This got
too complicated to ...
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opendir and readdir encoding strings behind my back?
(You can skip the details to the last couple of lines if you're able to answer the question :) )
I'm on an Ubuntu 12.04. I'm trying to resolve an old issue that I've posted about in the past (if ...
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Preferred mount points for internal HDDs
I am relatively new to Linux and I apologise if this is a silly question. I read the Linux FS Hierarchy document but it didn't answer my question.
I would like to know if there is a typical drive ...
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Find the total size of certain files within a directory branch
Assume there's an image storage directory, say, ./photos/john_doe, within which there are multiple subdirectories, where many certain files reside (say, *.jpg). How can I calculate a summary size of ...
