If you're new to Linux, knowing how the file system is laid out will alleviate some confusion. Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer Sept. 16, 2024 at 3:00 a.m. PT Screenshot by Jack Wallen ...

When a Linux system boots, one of the initial boot processes cleans out all of the files in the /tmp directory. The /var/tmp directory, on the other hand, does not get cleaned out between reboots, so ...