All,
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, 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?
Well, there was, and I'm showing my age here.
In the old days, late sixties, early seventies, /tmp was
typically a smaller faster disk, intended for smaller, but heavily used
files such as the intermediate files that cc produced for it's many
passes. /usr/tmp (now /var/tmp) was used for larger, not-so-heavily-used
files, such as those produced by sort during it's run. It was typically
larger than /tmp, but slower.
So, there was a good reason, but given that many Linuxs now are
on a single disk, there really isn't a good reason *that I know of*. I
think your symlink idea is just fine.
If you have a large external RAM disk, however, I'd mount it as
/tmp ;-).
Danny
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