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From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: /tmp Vs /usr/tmp in Sys V
Message-ID: <201@pyuxt.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 09:48:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 09:48:44 1984
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Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: /tmp vs. /usr/tmp (System V)
References: <528@wjh12.UUCP>

Hardly anything uses /usr/tmp (compiler, assembler and ursa dbms uses it
as a last resort), so it largely there to prevent existing programs from
breaking.  If you run out of space on /tmp why not give it its own file-
System?  You will do more to even up the disk accessing by placing it on
for example, a backup drive, than you will by attempting to differentiate
between /tmp and /usr/tmp on the basis of file size (and that will only
work if you've put root and /usr on different drives).

		Marcus Hand	(pyuxt!marcus)

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