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Remove, with extreme prejudice, the notion that /tmp best needs to be a

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softlink to /var/tmp.

This is horribly wrong since /tmp and /var/tmp serve different goals.
Even given the text that in the old days things were different doesn't help,
since our scripts clean /tmp, and we depend on /var/tmp to persist for
vi editing sessions recovery and other likewise applications.
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven 2002-05-28 06:03:50 +00:00
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@ -83,11 +83,7 @@ depends on the kind of temporary file usage you think you will need.
the minimum we recommend.
Also note that sysinstall will create a
.Pa /tmp
directory, but it is usually a good idea to make
.Pa /tmp
a softlink to
.Pa /var/tmp
after the fact.
directory.
Dedicating a partition for temporary file storage is important for
two reasons: first, it reduces the possibility of filesystem corruption
in a crash, and second it reduces the chance of a runaway process that