[ale] cleaning out /tmp

[Michael B. Trausch]

Jim Popovitch, on 09/02/2007 10:52 PM said:
> On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:06 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>> Debian cleans /tmp at boot time. Evidently, Ubuntu decided to break
>> this sane behavior. Here's something that might work for you --
>> http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_clean_.2Ftmp.2F_folder_contents_on_shutdown
> 
> While looking at that URL out of curiosity.... I realized that, if
> your /tmp dir is a mounted partition, those instructions would purge
> lost+found.  Question: what's the value of lost+found on /tmp mount
> point anyway?
> 

None that I can see, however, if someone wanted to ensure that it
existed, all one would have to do is run (cd /tmp; mklost+found) to
restore the lost+found directory.

	-- Mike

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