On 22.01.2012 00:59, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > 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.
Exactly, e.g. KDE has its cache files in /var/tmp so that the startup of KDE is not slowed down when /tmp is cleared on system boot (tmpfs). -- Anssi Hannula
