On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 2) which of the two device file names is the more appropriate? > or will both work equally well as long as i stay consistent? Doesn't matter. /tmp has been used in many places because there used to be a reasonable number of Linux installations done with the installation media mounted read-only, so /dev could not be written to (this was mostly nfs rooted installs, though some cdrom rooted installs were done as well). To get scratch space a ramdisk was hung off of /tmp. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
