Clearing tmp files

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:40 +0800, gup502 wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I come from Mandriva.  There is an option to set the system to clear
> temp files at boot.  If that is not selected, the temp files will
> quickly add up.  I do not see that option in Ubuntu. Is that required in
> Ubuntu?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Terence
> 
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> 
> 
/tmp can indeed be a separate partition, and if you choose to manually
partition your drive when installing ubuntu, you can not continue
installation without creating /tmp.  However, I have never had occasion
to clear my /tmp partition in two years. I have done so once by mistake,
and it took a bit to get the system to boot again. Apparently, at least
some versions of ubuntu do store boot files there. 

Example:  GNOME in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom has the option to set the
directory where user's .Xauthority file should should be saved.
(USERAuthDir=/tmp) 


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