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Subject: Re: Clean up / filesystem
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:41:16 -0400, bdsfbsd@att.net wrote:
> While there may be important stuff in /tmp at the moment you are running  
> the system for some reason (like X, apparently), there shouldn't be  
> anything in there that needs to survive a reboot, if that gives you an  
> indication of the safeness of deleting things. That's my understanding, if  
> I'm wrong I'd be interested to hear it.

I also understodd the meaning of /tmp in this way - "does not need
to survive reboot". For things that have a kind of temporary nature,
but have to survivve a reboot, /var/tmp is usually used.

For example, mergemaster's temproot/ tree resides here, as well as
LaTeX's texfonts/ or vi's vi.recover/ subtrees.



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