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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