Ubuntu – How to find configuration files

filesystem

I know that the /etc folder handles different configuration files, but how does one know where the configuration files of a service (iscsi target for example) are located ?

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You open the manual page for the command or service you want it for. The conf file for iscsi is iscsi.conf

I tend to assume a conf file will have {service/application}.conf. Most applications I use have something like that (with MySQL as the exception ;) )

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Ubuntu – find the application executables in the filesystem

The complete answer is to check out the Filesystem Hierachy Standard documentation on what stuff goes where.

But in your case, if you want to know where a particular executable is (for example firefox) use

which firefox

And you will get the full path like this

/usr/bin/firefox

Ubuntu – How to use gnome trash for files in different partition

GNOMEish file managers need a place to put the trashed files. Copying them to the 1st partition would be very bad performance. So it tries to put them in the /.Trash-$UID folder. Without rw access to that folder, no trash.

Run this bash in the partition root as the user who needs a trash.

sudo mkdir .Trash-$UID && sudo chown $USER:$USER .Trash-$UID

Note: If there is a a rw .Trash folder, Nautilus may create the user's trash folder automatically (/.Trash/$UID). I haven't tried this, just saw it in some logs. There are security issues with public trashes. YMMV.

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