Ben Phillips wrote:
>
> Is there a single reason to have both /tmp and /var/tmp? Every time I set
> up a system I always wipe one of them out & replace it with a symlink
> pointing at the other one, but it just occurred to me that there might
> actually be a reason to have them seperate. Is there?
On a BSD system, /tmp is used for memory based files and is
not preserved between reboots. The /var/tmp files
are generally preserved between reboots (e.g., /var/tmp/vi.recover/).
On *BSD, these are often kept on different slices as well.
Most linux distros keep them on the same slice (er, partition),
and therefore just sym link. The policies re: flushing /tmp
between reboots vary as well.
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