From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 20:51:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F9637B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAB743F93 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from sdn-ap-009dcwashp0484.dialsprint.net ([63.188.81.230] helo=moo.holy.cow) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18sbjV-0005Aj-00; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:51:24 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 10787AF5C; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:53:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:53:52 -0500 From: parv To: Dick Hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: tmp directory Message-ID: <20030311045352.GA69371@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Dick Hoogendijk , freebsd-questions References: <20030310212422.GA21988@pooh.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030310212422.GA21988@pooh.nagual.st> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <20030310212422.GA21988@pooh.nagual.st>, wrote Dick Hoogendijk thusly... > > Debian linux cleans it's /tmp on every reboot (IF you reboot ;-) > FreeBSD does not clean up. Lots of files stay in /tmp > > Question: can I manually clean /tmp or is it better to leave things > alone..?? In addition to previous reply, you can always mount (w/ proper planning of ourse) /tmp as memory file system; see newfs(8) or mount_mfs(8) (FreeBSD 4.7). - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message