Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt!sei!sei.cmu.edu!pdb From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: /usr/tmp Message-ID: <1791@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 03:30:46 EDT Article-I.D.: aw.1791 Posted: Fri Jul 3 03:30:46 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 20:44:51 EDT References: <431@murphy.UUCP> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu Reply-To: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Pat Barron) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, SEI, Pgh, Pa Lines: 26 Keywords: temp useless In article <431@murphy.UUCP> dave@murphy.UUCP (The Giant Hogweed) writes: >On everything that I take care of, I've made /usr/tmp a symlink to >/tmp (Sun and Gould machines, obviously running derivatives of BSD 4.2 >and 4.3). Several others have done the same. > >So, my question is: Does anyone still need /usr/tmp? Is there any reason >why all the utilities that use it couldn't be recoded to use /tmp instead, >and /usr/tmp be banished? This is just the opposite of my situation. I'm running off a single 380 megabyte disk that only has three partitions - /, /usr, and swap. I have about 600 blocks free on the root partition, but lots of space on /usr, so I run with /tmp symlinked to /usr/tmp (if I have to come up single-user or something like that, I remove the /tmp link and make a real directory). Myself, I'd prefer to see everything use /usr/tmp. Actually, ordinarily, I don't care. But when 'pc' tried to create a couple of 1+ megabyte temporary files (as it did when I tried build TeX from its WEB source), I *really* wanted the files created where I had space. However, in principle, I agree: there should be one place where temporary files are created. If you want it to be /tmp, then recode all the utilities to use /tmp (or better, edit all the binaries with EMACS or something, and globally replace all occurances of "/usr/tmp" with "/tmp\0\0\0\0" :-) ). --Pat.