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From: karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /usr a misnomer?  (was File Syst
Message-ID: <393@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 19:18:09 EST
Article-I.D.: haddock.393
Posted: Thu Mar 19 19:18:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 08:47:01 EST
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Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <5025@brl-adm.ARPA> preece%mycroft@gswd-vms.arpa (Scott E. Preece) writes:
>[Henry Spencer writes:]
>> This is why an occasional program like sort, which expects its temporary
>> files to be BIG, creates them in /usr/tmp instead of /tmp.
>
>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...

Which is one reason why I think *all* temp-using programs should honor the
TMPDIR envariable.  (Automatic if you use the right function in SysV, but I
never remember how it's spelled.)  A while back I put a /tmp subdirectory in
each mounted filesystem, and (until the space situation stabilized) had my
.profile set TMPDIR to whichever had the most room.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
T=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/$$; trap "exec rm -f $T" 0 1 2 3 15