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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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.
â kemotep
1 min ago
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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?
centos
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.
â kemotep
1 min ago
add a comment |Â
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.
â 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.â 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.â kemotep
1 min ago
add a comment |Â
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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.â kemotep
1 min ago