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[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

+ Anssi Hannula + anssi at mageia.org +
+ Sun Jan 22 16:53:28 CET 2012 +

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On 22.01.2012 00:59, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
+> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Oliver Burger
+> <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>>
+>> while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about
+>> those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories:
+>> /tmp/
+>> /var/tmp/
+> 
+> Those are historically grown ... /tmp is the really temporary one,
+> discarded when rebooting, while /var/tmp is for stuff that is to be
+> preserved after a reboot.
+> 
+> So while /tmp nowadays frequently is on a ramdisk, /var/tmp is not.
+
+Exactly, e.g. KDE has its cache files in /var/tmp so that the startup of
+KDE is not slowed down when /tmp is cleared on system boot (tmpfs).
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
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