What are /net and /srv and /misc for?
Tom Horsley
tomhorsley at adelphia.net
Sun Sep 3 17:34:04 UTC 2006
> In the future, global server files will go in /srv. So /var/www will
> become /srv/www, etc. /var will be reserved for files that need to be
> writable by the running system--locks, pid files, spools, etc.
That makes sense. I was always confused by the /var/www location.
I guess I want to backup /srv for the day it becomes non-empty :-).
> Right. And /selinux and /media and /mnt and /tmp. And several of the
> directories under /var.
I forgot /selinux, I'll add it to my list. I already figured out
the other ones.
Thanks for the info.
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