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Date:      Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:11:54 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clean up / filesystem
Message-ID:  <20101010181154.da407f35.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:00:43 +0000, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I did not know that. I aliased /var/tmp to /tmp which is tmpfsed
> I'm guessing I should undo that - right?

Just in case you encountered problems that *may* be related to
mergemaster, vi, or any other software you're running that requires
"persistent temporary files" (sounds illogical). There shouldn't
be much stuff accumulating in /var/tmp.

If you didn't have trouble yet, I don't think it is a big no-go to
symlink /var/tmp tp /tmp (tmpfs).


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



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