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    7 months ago

    /dev is for device files, ie special files that let you communicate directly with a physical piece of hardware

    /etc is for configuration files, ie the comments tell how to setup a device or application

    /var is for variable files, ie files who’s content is regularly changing, the primary example is logs, but there are a lot of other files that land in /var (some are moving to /run, though)