On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:21:40PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > /tmp is for temporary files, so I expect my /tmp to hold all these > files, in my case DVD ISO images (downloaded or localy generated) > that I will burn and then delete. So my /tmp is at least 20GB. > BluRay users may need more.
If you assume an unexpected reboot, then all that data will be lost, forcing you to redownload these images. Couldn't /var/tmp serve this purpose better, if it's not exactly ephemeral data? (Like a temporary ISO created from on-disk content.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120602125603.ga11...@spike.0x539.de
