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Date:      Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:16:11 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Caleb Stein <caleb.stein@me.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clean up / filesystem
Message-ID:  <20101010001611.ed9bc12b.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <op.vkbkpinqesa1c5@win7x64.mshome.net>
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On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:40:20 -0700, Caleb Stein <caleb.stein@me.com> wrote:
> Ok, so it won't hurt X as long as I clear /tmp/ while X isn't running?

Correct, no problem.

It *may* be possible that some programs save files to /tmp, even
if it is NOT to be assumed that those files survive a reboot.
The content of /tmp is to be seen as easily flammable. :-)

X itself does use /tmp mainly for /tmp/.X0-lock as well as the
/tmp/.font-unix/, /tmp/.X11-unix/, /tmp/.ICE-unix/, /tmp/.XIM-unix/ 
and other subtrees that get generated anyway when not present
at X startup.

Make sure *YOU* don't have any important files in there. :-)



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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