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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Old-Topics: Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question
Subject: [DNG] merging /tmp
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:47:42PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
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>     In my last install, I still had /tmp and /var on separate partitions,
> but I'm questionning the validity of such a setup.


It's useful to have /tmp on a separate partition in case some process
running amok fills it and ordinary shell commands that need temprary
files stop working.

After a reboot it's clean again.

-- hendrik