[gentoo-user] Re: Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

[Michael Schmarck <michael.schmarck@habmalnefrage.de>]

Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com> wrote:

> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
>>>> Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink
>>>> to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both.
>>> Why not use tmpfs for /tmp? It usually requires very little space, and
>>> will use swap if memory is tight.
>>
>> I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great:
>>
>> tmpfs                 512M   12K  512M   1% /tmp
> 
> Catch: You loose it all on reboot.

That's no catch. /tmp is meant to be empty upon reboot.
No application should assume that things survive a reboot
in /tmp - you use /var/tmp for temporary stuff, which is
meant to be available after a reboot.

> Since things like vi keep their in-work backups
> there, 

What? I've got .blah.swp files all over the place.
But not in /tmp.

Michael

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