Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:42:44 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@siteplus.net Subject: Re: Space Message-ID: <200009291542.e8TFgiR47030@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <009701c029a3$a97689e0$52736520@siteplus.net>
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>From: "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net>
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:27:23 -0400
>In the last episode Jared said,
>> Funny, alot of people told me to do that. I already have! Although i put
>it in /var/tmp :)
>This is warned against in "The Complete FreeBSD" since /var/tmp is handled
>differently. I believe it clears itself ever so often. I don't have a copy
>handy or I would give you the explanation.
Excerpts from "man hier":
/tmp/ temporary files, usually a mfs(8) memory-based filesystem (the
contents of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system re-
boot)
...
/var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
...
tmp/ temporary files that are kept between system reboots
vi.recover/
the directory where recovery files are
stored
[end of excerpts form "man hier" -- dhw]
Please note the distinction with respect to system reboots. (Also, if
/tmp is implemented as an MFS, specifying "clear_tmp_enable" in
/etc/rc.conf is a tad redundant.)
Cheers,
david
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