CentOS: Can Default, Empty Folders Be Deleted?

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After a CentOS 7 Minimal install, and a yum update, I analyzed the folders. The following folders either have nothing inside them, or they only have inside them folders which have nothing inside them (this isn't an exhaustive or complete list):



  • /home/

  • /media/

  • /opt/

  • /lost+found/

  • /mnt/

  • /usr/etc/

  • /usr/games/

  • /usr/local/

Can these folders be safely deleted, or could there be bad repercussions for doing so?






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  • The issue is that, in the future, a program you install may look for these to exist and if they are not present not work. These are present because they will be needed. /mnt is where things are mounted such as your hard drive, /home is for you users (do not run a server with root as your only user!), /usr/* is used for read-only user data, most of your utilities and third-party software will be kept in various places in /usr or /opt. It is better to practice good control over the access rights of these instead of deleting them.
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After a CentOS 7 Minimal install, and a yum update, I analyzed the folders. The following folders either have nothing inside them, or they only have inside them folders which have nothing inside them (this isn't an exhaustive or complete list):



  • /home/

  • /media/

  • /opt/

  • /lost+found/

  • /mnt/

  • /usr/etc/

  • /usr/games/

  • /usr/local/

Can these folders be safely deleted, or could there be bad repercussions for doing so?






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  • The issue is that, in the future, a program you install may look for these to exist and if they are not present not work. These are present because they will be needed. /mnt is where things are mounted such as your hard drive, /home is for you users (do not run a server with root as your only user!), /usr/* is used for read-only user data, most of your utilities and third-party software will be kept in various places in /usr or /opt. It is better to practice good control over the access rights of these instead of deleting them.
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After a CentOS 7 Minimal install, and a yum update, I analyzed the folders. The following folders either have nothing inside them, or they only have inside them folders which have nothing inside them (this isn't an exhaustive or complete list):



  • /home/

  • /media/

  • /opt/

  • /lost+found/

  • /mnt/

  • /usr/etc/

  • /usr/games/

  • /usr/local/

Can these folders be safely deleted, or could there be bad repercussions for doing so?






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After a CentOS 7 Minimal install, and a yum update, I analyzed the folders. The following folders either have nothing inside them, or they only have inside them folders which have nothing inside them (this isn't an exhaustive or complete list):



  • /home/

  • /media/

  • /opt/

  • /lost+found/

  • /mnt/

  • /usr/etc/

  • /usr/games/

  • /usr/local/

Can these folders be safely deleted, or could there be bad repercussions for doing so?






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  • The issue is that, in the future, a program you install may look for these to exist and if they are not present not work. These are present because they will be needed. /mnt is where things are mounted such as your hard drive, /home is for you users (do not run a server with root as your only user!), /usr/* is used for read-only user data, most of your utilities and third-party software will be kept in various places in /usr or /opt. It is better to practice good control over the access rights of these instead of deleting them.
    – kemotep
    1 min ago
















  • The issue is that, in the future, a program you install may look for these to exist and if they are not present not work. These are present because they will be needed. /mnt is where things are mounted such as your hard drive, /home is for you users (do not run a server with root as your only user!), /usr/* is used for read-only user data, most of your utilities and third-party software will be kept in various places in /usr or /opt. It is better to practice good control over the access rights of these instead of deleting them.
    – kemotep
    1 min ago















The issue is that, in the future, a program you install may look for these to exist and if they are not present not work. These are present because they will be needed. /mnt is where things are mounted such as your hard drive, /home is for you users (do not run a server with root as your only user!), /usr/* is used for read-only user data, most of your utilities and third-party software will be kept in various places in /usr or /opt. It is better to practice good control over the access rights of these instead of deleting them.
– kemotep
1 min ago




The issue is that, in the future, a program you install may look for these to exist and if they are not present not work. These are present because they will be needed. /mnt is where things are mounted such as your hard drive, /home is for you users (do not run a server with root as your only user!), /usr/* is used for read-only user data, most of your utilities and third-party software will be kept in various places in /usr or /opt. It is better to practice good control over the access rights of these instead of deleting them.
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