Linux Path Cheatsheet (sopuli.xyz)

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[-] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

What’s diff between device files vs config files vs variable files?

[-] UID_Zero@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

/dev is for device files, ie special files that let you communicate directly with a physical piece of hardware

/etc is for configuration files, ie the comments tell how to setup a device or application

/var is for variable files, ie files who's content is regularly changing, the primary example is logs, but there are a lot of other files that land in /var (some are moving to /run, though)

[-] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Two important things under /var are /var/spool for printing and /var/mail

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