> Just to add some fire... How will tmp clean
> scripts work? Has anyone cared about this? I
> just opened a few tarballs and got 200Mb on
> ~/tmp. And tha's 10% of my disk free space. a
> few days and I get "partition is full".
> Before a script cleaned up the stuff every 24
> hours on /tmp. So I didn't care. Now I have to
> think that you have to clean not only /tmp but
> also a few /home/*/tmp's.
Once again, since I'm a "screen" user, I'm going
to mention the fact that "screen" places a kind
of lock file (pid.screen_name) file for each
screen in ~/tmp. Removing these isn't a good
thing. I've been known to have a single screen
running for 60-70 days.
Maybe we should get "screen" to stick things in
/var/lock instead, so it eliminates the problem?
> In the meantime I would like to note a
> psychological moment - many users have tmp for
> storing archives. It is a method coming from
> old DOS times where many people used directory
> TMP for temporary storage (TEMP was the
> swap/drop/trash directory)
I always made a download directory back then, and
I still do today.. but you're right, I remember a
number of people who did it that way.
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