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From: isns01@ms3.UUCP (Jim Chappell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /usr/tmp
Message-ID: <590@ms3.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 16:29:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: ms3.590
Posted: Fri Jul  3 16:29:53 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 14:35:55 EDT
References: <431@murphy.UUCP>
Organization: ISN HIOS Project, Arlington, VA
Lines: 19
Keywords: temp useless
Summary: /usr/tmp -- a little less transient then /tmp

In article <431@murphy.UUCP>, dave@murphy.UUCP (The Giant Hogweed) writes:
> Does anyone still need /usr/tmp?  This is one of those things that date
> back to the days when you had two 5M drives; one was root and the other
> was /usr, and neither one had a lot of space, so they both had temp
> directories, and some utilities used /tmp and some used /usr/tmp.


I thing /tmp is best used for really transient stuff -- things that wouldn't be missed
missed in a crash recovery.  /usr/tmp sould be used for temporaries with a
little longer life span -- say document images that can safely be removed
after a day or two of unuse.

Generally, it makes sense to size your file system to its anticipated use
even if you have relatively unlimited disk space.
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Jim Chappell  ...!seismo!vrdxhq!ms3!jrc 
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