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From: kemnitz@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Gregory Kemnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /tmp
Summary: /tmp is blown away on reboot, /usr/tmp isnt ...
Keywords: At least on some machines I have used...
Message-ID: <728@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 89 18:04:08 GMT
References: <5712@lynx.UUCP>
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Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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In article <5712@lynx.UUCP>, m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes:
# What bad bad things happen if I symbolically link /tmp to /usr/tmp?  My
# root file system is tiny and I run out of space often.  Thanks to the
# wondrous Integrated "Solutions" SCSI driver, I can't repartition the
# disk.
# 
# My fear is that some demon or something will go nuts when the system
# boots.  I guess I could make a /usr/tmp in the root file system, which
# will go away when /usr is mounted.  Hopefully nothing bad happens if a
# file is open in a directory when it gets "covered up" by a mount.
# 
# -- 
# Mike McNally                                    Lynx Real-Time Systems
# uucp: {voder,athsys}!lynx!m5                    phone: 408 370 2233
# 
#             Where equal mind and contest equal, go.

I once wrote a piece of software that did autosaves into /usr/tmp and
restored from them if the system went down (or if my software crashed :-).
I don't know how many other programs use /usr/tmp to save autosave files
(does VI??) but I know at least one does :-).



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