/tmp and /var/tmp

Posted Mar 31, 2011 21:36 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669)
In reply to: /tmp and /var/tmp by k8to
Parent article: Introducing /run

Absolutely. And I've seen veteran UNIX sysadmins dump e.g. Oracle install data in /tmp on solaris systems, which *do* use tmpfs for /tmp, thus knackering the box... it's expected to be able to do it, even when it isn't a good idea :-)