[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

[David W. Hodgins]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:35:39 -0500, Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org> 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/
>> ~/tmp/ (one for every user)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_structure

/tmp     - files may not survive reboot.
/var/tmp - files may survive reboot
~/tmp    - files may survive reboot, also subject to things like quotas, for
            regular users.

Regards, Dave Hodgins