Re: What absolutely must stay on the physical root partition?
Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:09:58AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > Just to satisfy my own curiosity:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:16:32AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > /share (oddly, not discussed in FHS)
> >
> > What have you got in /share? I've never seen it before...
>
> /share/apps/kleandisk. It looks as if that's where it stores its
> data. Maybe I should file a bug against it.
I'd say so. App data that doesn't change should go under /usr/share;
app data that changes should go somewhere under /var. Creating new
top-level directories is double-plus uncool.
> > > /lock
> >
> > Hm, what's this for?
>
> Inter-process coordination. If a process needs exclusive access to a
> file, it can write a lockfile, checking first that someone else
> doesn't already have a lock.
I think you're thinking of /var/lock.
Craig
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