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From: preece%mycroft@gswd-vms.arpa (Scott E. Preece)
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Subject: Re: /usr a misnomer?  (was File Syst
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Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 13:54:07 EST
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  henry Spencer:
> This is why an occasional program like sort, which expects its temporary
> files to be BIG, creates them in /usr/tmp instead of /tmp.  (Of course,
> more recent system variants have often changed things around, so don't
> nit-pick if yours does things a little differently -- *my* distribution
> tape came from Bell Labs, not from XYZ Vaporboxes Inc. or Miskatonic U.)
> And so forth.
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On the other hand, today many of us run with nice, b-i-g /tmp partitions
and with /usr partitions that are basically static and mostly full,
rendering that strategy ill advised...

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scott preece
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