/tmp Vs /usr/tmp in Sys V

[M. G. Hand]

Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: /tmp vs. /usr/tmp (System V)
References: <528 at wjh12.UUCP>

Hardly anything uses /usr/tmp (compiler, assembler and ursa dbms uses it
as a last resort), so it largely there to prevent existing programs from
breaking.  If you run out of space on /tmp why not give it its own file-
System?  You will do more to even up the disk accessing by placing it on
for example, a backup drive, than you will by attempting to differentiate
between /tmp and /usr/tmp on the basis of file size (and that will only
work if you've put root and /usr on different drives).

		Marcus Hand	(pyuxt!marcus)

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