Safe to remove all /tmp files?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Safe to remove all /tmp files?
started by: Drakkor

Posted by Drakkor on May 27 2006,19:26

I read in one of the posts that tthe /tmp files were supposed to be erased on reboot,but I did reboot, and their still there. Is it safe to remove all them?
Thanks

Posted by piccolo on May 27 2006,19:41

When DSL boot from LiveCD the /tmp folder is on RAM memory as /ramdisk/tmp. So when the computer reboot this and other folders are lost. However when DSL is installed to hard disk the /tmp folder is permanent.
Not problem if you want remove all files inside /tmp directory.

Posted by Drakkor on May 27 2006,20:37

Thanks again, piccolo, yes I do have DSL installed to the HD,thanks for clearing that up ! I installed on a 300Mb partition, is there a way to tell how much space
I have left on it? I had to install jre for my poker room program, and was wondering. Thanks again !

Posted by mikshaw on May 27 2006,21:30

use the command df -h

Posted by Drakkor on May 27 2006,22:18

Thanks for the reply, mikshaw, I guess I'm driving this board crazy with all my noob questions,lol, but I have been making real progress thanks to you all ! I hardly even
need Windows except to play some games like Ureal, or Call Of Duty !
What I get is:
/dev/hda3 Size 297M Used 216M Avail 66M
/tmp/jre1_5_0 Size 84M Used 84M Avail 0 Mounted on /opt/jjre1_5_0
Don't know why this is because I deleted all the /tmp files and /opt shows
jre1_5_0 as 2048 bytes ! BTW Cool Avatar :laugh:

Posted by mikshaw on May 28 2006,13:28

/opt/jre1_5_0 is shown as 2048 bytes because that is the size of the mountpoint. You'll probably see the same size for any mounted uci package. The actual program is much larger. /tmp/jre1_5_0 is, i assume, the mydsl package itself. As long as it's mounted you cannot remove it.