/tmp

[Gregory Kemnitz]

In article <5712 at lynx.UUCP>, m5 at lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes:
# What bad bad things happen if I symbolically link /tmp to /usr/tmp?  My
# root file system is tiny and I run out of space often.  Thanks to the
# wondrous Integrated "Solutions" SCSI driver, I can't repartition the
# disk.
# 
# My fear is that some demon or something will go nuts when the system
# boots.  I guess I could make a /usr/tmp in the root file system, which
# will go away when /usr is mounted.  Hopefully nothing bad happens if a
# file is open in a directory when it gets "covered up" by a mount.
# 
# -- 
# Mike McNally                                    Lynx Real-Time Systems
# uucp: {voder,athsys}!lynx!m5                    phone: 408 370 2233
# 
#             Where equal mind and contest equal, go.

I once wrote a piece of software that did autosaves into /usr/tmp and
restored from them if the system went down (or if my software crashed :-).
I don't know how many other programs use /usr/tmp to save autosave files
(does VI??) but I know at least one does :-).



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