Where is the crontab file?

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opensuse 42.2

“crontab -e” opens a file from somewhere to edit cron jobs.

Does anyone know where that file is stored?

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/var/spool/cron/tabs/

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Thank you.

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That is nice knowledge about the internals of cron, but you should NOT edit files there with an editor.

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I only needed the location so I would know where to copy it from a backup.

Context: the system disk (an SSD) simply ceased to function after a week’s holiday. It was fine when I left; useless when I returned.

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That clarifies a lot. I only wanted to warn you.

BTW my advice to all users to use

crontab -l >contents-of-my-crontab

to save the contents of his/her crontab in text readable form in a file. Assuming the home directory of the user is subject of a form of backup, the user is then always able to restore his/her crontab with

crontab contents-of-my-crontab