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From: Joachim Griesche <griesche@bsd.ist-ffo.de>
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Hello!

Although putting /tmp on its own partition is helpful, I
prefer not to symlink /var/tmp to /tmp because /tmp and
/var/tmp are handled in a different manner by most systems:
While /tmp is cleared at boot time, /var/tmp is not (see
the file /etc/rc and the comments where), preserving
recovery files. If /tmp is not on its own partition, I
create /usr/tmp and symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp in order to
avoid filling of /.

With best regards
Joachim Griesche

System administrator
Institut fuer Solartechnologien GmbH
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

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