Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-23 Thread P. Christeas
On Sunday 22 January 2012, David W. Hodgins wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_struct ure /tmp - files may not survive reboot. /var/tmp - files may survive reboot ~/tmp- files may survive reboot, also subject to things like quotas, for

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-23 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 21/01/12 19:39 did gyre and gimble: Op zaterdag 21 januari 2012 20:06:54 schreef Colin Guthrie: There are other commands you can use other than mount... e.g. df [colin@jimmy ~]$ df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-23 Thread EatDirt
On 21/01/12 20:06, Colin Guthrie wrote: What's wrong with this? It's showing you the mounts that are active... would you rather it filtered out e.g. /sys etc? Generally speaking df is a more useful command than mount IMO anyway, and it's always been the command I use when I'm just wanting a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-23 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Monday 23 January 2012 16:57, EatDirt wrote: I have always used mount to see what was actually mounted as disk or media. Mount also list how it is mounted, not just where. (e.g. ro, rw, noexec etc.) df can't do this. -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description:

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-23 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 23 januari 2012 19:08:48 schreef Johnny A. Solbu: On Monday 23 January 2012 16:57, EatDirt wrote: I have always used mount to see what was actually mounted as disk or media. Mount also list how it is mounted, not just where. (e.g. ro, rw, noexec etc.) df can't do this. Can

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-22 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 22.01.2012 00:59, Christian Lohmaier wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com 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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-22 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
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 oliver@googlemail.com wrote: while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-22 Thread Anssi Hannula
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 oliver@googlemail.com wrote: while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those

[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Oliver Burger
Hi, while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) Now I can understand the reason behind having the user's tmp separately, but why do we have two system wide separate

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread eatdirt
On 21/01/12 18:21, Oliver Burger wrote: I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) Hi, I am taking the opportunity of this thread to also mention the incredible number of shit mounted by systemd that completely render the output of a mount

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Balcaen John
On Saturday 21 January 2012 18:21:14 Oliver Burger wrote : Hi, while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) Now I can understand the reason behind having the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread andre999
Oliver Burger a écrit : Hi, while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) [...] Can't we do something about that? Thanks, Oliver Sounds like a good

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and eatdirt at 21/01/12 17:35 did gyre and gimble: On 21/01/12 18:21, Oliver Burger wrote: I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) Hi, I am taking the opportunity of this thread to also mention the incredible number

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Sander Lepik
21.01.2012 20:59, andre999 kirjutas: Sounds like a good idea. It might be better to get rid of /tmp if we can, since systems would always have a read-write /var and thus /var/tmp, even if they have a read-only /. AFAIK even Flash Player uses /tmp to download content. Probably some other

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 21/01/12 17:21 did gyre and gimble: Hi, while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) Now I can understand the reason

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 21/01/12 17:21 did gyre and gimble: Hi, while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) Now I can

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Dick Gevers
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:21:14 +0100, Oliver Burger wrote about [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories: Hi, while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) and: /home/uid

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 21 januari 2012 20:06:54 schreef Colin Guthrie: There are other commands you can use other than mount... e.g. df [colin@jimmy ~]$ df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 15G 12G 2.1G 85% /

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com 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,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 21 januari 2012 23:59:35 schreef Christian Lohmaier: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com wrote: while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/