From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:46:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080414084656.25dfb0c1@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4802D14A.5060505@wrkhors.com>
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:36:42 -0400, Steven Lembark wrote:
> > I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great:
> Catch: You loose it all on reboot.
You are supposed to. The LFS says that /tmp is for files that do not need
to survive a reboot. Baselayout now defaults to wiping /tmp at boot
anyway.
> Since things like vi keep their in-work backups
> there, loosing the entire contents of /tmp after a
> crash can be painful.
Then they are broken, such data should be stored in /var/tmp.
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Neil Bothwick
Can you be a closet claustrophobic?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-14 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 16:38 [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp Florian Philipp
2008-04-13 17:07 ` Steven Lembark
2008-04-13 19:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-04-13 20:28 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-04-13 22:10 ` Peter Humphrey
2008-04-14 3:36 ` Steven Lembark
2008-04-14 7:46 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-04-14 7:58 ` Philip Webb
2008-04-15 0:48 ` forgottenwizard
2008-04-15 5:16 ` Philip Webb
2008-04-15 16:43 ` forgottenwizard
2008-04-14 8:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-04-14 9:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2008-04-14 21:23 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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