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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories</H1>
    <B>P. Christeas</B> 
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    <I>Mon Jan 23 09:19:05 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Sunday 22 January 2012, David W. Hodgins wrote:
&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_struct">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_struct</A>
</I>&gt;<i> ure
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> /tmp     - files may not survive reboot.
</I>&gt;<i> /var/tmp - files may survive reboot
</I>&gt;<i> ~/tmp    - files may survive reboot, also subject to things like quotas,
</I>&gt;<i> for regular users.
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Add to that:
 /tmp may be the fastest (ramfs)
 /var/tmp is machine-local, quite fast
 ~/tmp may be network-mapped (nfs), will be slower

it is a speed vs. longevity tradeoff

and also good reason to have all these choices.


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