Clearing tmp files

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 16:39 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> Mario, are you confusing tmpfs with /tmp ?

No, my confusion was otherwise :) Apologies to the OP.

I was right though that /tmp by default is cleared on reboot. See the
reply by "sktsee".

> As far as I can see, /tmp is a very real directory on my hard drive,
> not a volatile system in RAM . 

Right on

> In fact, had I wanted to do so, I could have made /tmp a separate
> partition...

Regardless of my mistake, of course you could have done this even
if /tmp was RAM-only by default.