On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Oliver Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > > while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about > those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: > /tmp/ > /var/tmp/
Those are historically grown ... /tmp is the really temporary one, discarded when rebooting, while /var/tmp is for stuff that is to be preserved after a reboot. So while /tmp nowadays frequently is on a ramdisk, /var/tmp is not. ciao Christian
