Empty /tmp when shutting down

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Feb 26 12:38:33 UTC 2004


On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Vink wrote:

> I always had tmpfs until I used the burner in webmin, this creates 
> .webmin directory with an iso file and that is way too large for a tmpfs 
> /tmp. Then you have to mess around in the perl scripts of webmin, to get 
> .webmin somewhere else, a symlink does not help, because it removes 
> itselfs in advance.
> Also downloadling files with Mozilla goes first via /tmp.

hence my suggestion of a subordinate /tmp/junk tmpfs directory, for stuff 
you really do want to be temporary and transient.

rday





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