On 22.01.2012 22:51, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > W dniu 22.01.2012 16:53, Anssi Hannula pisze: >> 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). >> > Really? I use /tmp for packaging and patching - and these files stay > there untouched after several reboots.
I didn't say it gets cleared on all systems, obviously it depends on your configuration. -- Anssi Hannula
