Keep my data in my $HOME

Posted Jan 14, 2009 15:25 UTC (Wed) by nlucas (guest, #33793)
In reply to: Keep my data in my $HOME by rvfh
Parent article: BleachBit: Does GNU/Linux need the equivalent of a Windows registry cleaner?

Note that "/tmp" and "/var/tmp" have different functions.

"/tmp" is for temporary files that can be completely cleaned up on system reboot (and many distros have init scripts that do exactly this).

"/var/tmp" is for temporary files that are to be preserved between reboots.

Google for FHS for more information.