[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

[Christian Lohmaier]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Oliver Burger
<oliver.bgr at 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,
discarded when rebooting, while /var/tmp is for stuff that is to be
preserved after a reboot.

So while /tmp nowadays frequently is on a ramdisk, /var/tmp is not.

ciao
Christian