James Wilkinson:
> One obvious thing to note: data in /tmp gets wiped each time you
reboot
> the machine. I actually find this really helpful -- I find I do create a
> number of temporary files which won't need to last beyond a reboot.
Timothy Murphy:
This certainly isn't true on my laptop, which I boot daily, eg
[tim@martha ~]$ ls -ls /tmp/gfaq.pdf
344 -rw------- 1 tim tim 344131 Oct 10 12:56 /tmp/gfaq.pdf
Wasn't it James who said he used tmpfs for his /tmp? That's using RAM,
not disk, for /tmp, so theirs would go away on a reboot.
Is there some setting for this?
Ordinarily, /tmp file get cleared by a cron job that checks for files
that haven't been accessed recently. There's a configurable time period
for when something is considered old enough to be deleted.
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