Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.reisz@gmail.com): > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the resulting > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is Most comments in that thread lead you to the correct conclusions that: - filling up /tmp is not good - blindly destroying files in /tmp is not good (desktop envs keep data and sockets there) As additional input, I would add that many apps are often configured to use /tmp as "scratch space" and you'd better go with a *big enough* partition for it than keeping it small inside a small root partition. For instance, most CD/DVD burning apps, when they have to build temporary images, do it by default in /tmp, on the safe assumption that it is cleaned out at boot and therefore no cruft is likely to be left in case something bad happens. As a consequence, I personnally generally use it quite extensively for anything that needs scratch files on my system (for instance mutt composing emails, etc). Debian Installer's "multi" partitioning scheme does indeed propos ea separate /tmp....and, when D-I proposes something as a possible option, that's often well thought..:-)
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