how big does /tmp need to be?

[Kennneth P. Turvey]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:55:49 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Bob Smith wrote:
> By definition.  /usr/tmp is supposed to have files that can persist, but
> Ubuntu has, at times - I'm not sure it's still doing it - set the system
> up in such a way that /tmp, /var/lock and /var/run (and maybe /var/tmp)
> actually get cleaned out on every boot.  This has led to some badly
> behaved packages not working properly because they _expected_ to find an
> old file in /tmp.

My understanding has always been that /tmp was for temporary files.  The 
kind that don't persist between reboots.  If you have an application that 
expects files in /tmp to persist over reboots, I would suggest that the 
application has a bug either in configuration or implementation.  The 
appropriate place for files that are intended to survive reboots is 
/var.  




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