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anything shared across the system but not supplied by the system vendor traditionally goes here -- most commonly, packages compiled from TarBall~s
__<tt>/var</tt>__:
variable data files, such as logs, mail and printer spools
__<tt>/tmp</tt>__:
- temporary files -- that is ''literally'' temporary files. On some systems this directory is frequently purged, and on machines with modern [Linux] kernels it may be mounted as [Tmpfs] FileSystem that exists only in memory. When virtual memory was
not as good as it is
today, many userland programs had to explicitly balance memory and disk consumption in <tt>/tmp/</tt>, and some still do (such as find(1)).
+ temporary files -- that is ''literally'' temporary files. On some systems this directory is frequently purged, and on machines with modern [Linux] kernels it may be mounted as [Tmpfs] FileSystem that exists only in memory. When VirtualMemory subsystems were
not as good as they are
today, many userland programs had to explicitly balance memory and disk consumption in <tt>/tmp/</tt>, and some still do (such as find(1)).
More information can be found at the [filesystem hierarchy standard | http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/], and in hier(7).
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