Comments on: Favorite Unix Directory http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: CLI_lord http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-16244 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:06:55 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-16244

My favorite directory ist /tmp because that’s where I do all my experiments with small (and mostly useless) scripts.
The nice thing is this directory is always tidy after reboot :)

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By: Jaded Judas http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12110 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:29:19 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12110

Since “ln -s” is my friend, I’ve got softlinks to /home/public/MYOOZIK, /home/public/Podcasts, /home/public/audio-books, and /home/public/e-books are softlinked to /home/${username}.

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By: Fr3d http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12102 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:07:36 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12102

/var – all the log files are here somewhere, along with data for pretty much every service (MySQL, mail servers, DNS, rrdtool-based apps, etc)

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By: Morghan http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12096 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:55:22 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12096

/usr/local or ~/.wine

Where all my games go :P

Defiantly /usr/local on this laptop, I’m not even sure wine would work on it, and even if it did I can think of very few Windows programs that would run on this thing even if it still had 98 installed on it.

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By: astine http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12095 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:43:53 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12095

/etc

Why, because it’s where I seem to spend most of my time. :P

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By: Square http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12090 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:33:06 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12090

I personally love the /mnt directory. I’m a person who likes to stay organized in a computing environment (not so much on my desk, however), so it’s a great place to control where my ‘extra’ devices are located. I can set up a few directories within /mnt for each device I use often – including my secondary ‘storage’ drive, and then a few directories for spontaneous mounts such as iso files or network shares.

Honestly, there’s no excuse to have sloppy mounting habits when /mnt exists to take care of that problem.

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By: Chris Wellons http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12086 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:12:17 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12086

Out of principle, I couldn’t pick /dev/random or /dev/null as these aren’t directories. I did choose /dev because that’s where all the cool stuff is, like the mentioned devices, loopback devices, sound card, webcam, hard drives, etc.

Luke: [/dev/random] is basically an entropy device producing endless, pseudo-random output.

On Linux, as well as other unix-like operating systems, /dev/random is a true random number generator that gets entropy from the system’s device drivers. It’s slow, but a good source for strong key generation or PRNG seeds. /dev/urandom is the fast, non-blocking pseudo-random number generator.

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By: dawn http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12084 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:38:38 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12084

I like /etc because it’s fun to edit configuration files and read system start-up scripts.

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By: mcai8sh4 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12082 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:28:35 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12082

My favorite is quite boring… because –

“There’s no place like ~”

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By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12081 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:19:23 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/17/favorite-unix-directory/#comment-12081

@Martin Grandrath: LOL!

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