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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:53:52 -0500
From:      parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net>
To:        Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tmp directory
Message-ID:  <20030311045352.GA69371@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <20030310212422.GA21988@pooh.nagual.st>
References:  <20030310212422.GA21988@pooh.nagual.st>

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in message <20030310212422.GA21988@pooh.nagual.st>,
wrote Dick Hoogendijk thusly...
>
> Debian linux cleans it's /tmp on every reboot (IF you reboot ;-)
> FreeBSD does not clean up. Lots of files stay in /tmp
> 
> Question: can I manually clean /tmp or is it better to leave things
> alone..??

In addition to previous reply, you can always mount (w/ proper
planning of ourse) /tmp as memory file system; see newfs(8) or
mount_mfs(8) (FreeBSD 4.7).


  - parv

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