Everything is a File, Until it Isn’t At some point in the past, Unix — the progenitor of Linux — treated virtually everything as a file, and all files were created more or less equal.

Have you heard it said that everything in Linux is a file? That is largely true, and that’s why the ability to manipulate files is crucial to mastering Linux Fu. One thing that makes a Linux … ...

Everything is temporary in the sense that no files will be created on your hard drive. If you were to unmount such a file system, everything stored in it would be lost.