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    You do on your system what you want. If you want to store your porn collection in /boot nobody restricts that. Commented Jun 18, 2011 at 15:18
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    FYI, when you start a path with /, as you have with /Pictures, that means that the path starts at the root level (i.e. an absolute path). If a path starts with ~, then its starting point is a home directory (your home directory if followed by either a / or nothing at all, someone else's if followed by their username). So you should instead write ~/Pictures to mean the Pictures directory in your home directory, or you should just write Pictures. If you want to show it's a directory, follow it with a /, as in Pictures/. Commented Jun 18, 2011 at 23:52
  • @AntonBarkovsky those are system files and pretty much shouldn't be touched. All your precious files could be overwritten! Commented Sep 17, 2022 at 2:37