On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:36:39PM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| there is one thing that puzzles me about /tmp:
| 
| Why does the hier(7) manpage say that "the contents of /tmp are _not_
| preserved across a system reboot" while /etc/rc cleans up /tmp only
| partially?

It just skips lost+found and quota files, if you have them.

Those are basically "part of the filesystem", so deleting them does
not make a lot of sense. 

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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