Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxt!marcus 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 Article-I.D.: pyuxt.201 Posted: Wed Oct 17 09:48:44 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 06:09:54 EDT Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 15 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) PS readnews also uses it to hold follow up messages, etc., like this one.