Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:58:50 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: bdsfbsd@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clean up / filesystem Message-ID: <20101010165850.3329e09a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <op.vkc4a2t6htl4zj@galileo> References: <op.vkakpz1j0i70i3@win7x64.mshome.net> <op.vkbisimcesa1c5@win7x64.mshome.net> <4CB0A8A1.5040904@qeng-ho.org> <201010100940.29438.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <AANLkTimfj2-MTjqDSzBPczPpsY5jtGyWUQmO59SZD-eR@mail.gmail.com> <op.vkc4a2t6htl4zj@galileo>
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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. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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