On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Robert Vangel wrote: > I never thought of that... > > Nice :) > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > why not just mount a "tmpfs" filesystem under tmp? that goes away > > automatically when you shut down. > > > > rday a bit of a caveat -- there may be some things you *want* to leave under /tmp. my solution is to leave /tmp as a real filesystem, and mount a tmpfs-style filesystem under /tmp/junk, for a transient location i know will be cleaned on reboot. you know how often you download something, just need a place to put it for a few minutes before installing it, etc. that's what /tmp/junk is for. rday
