[arch-general] Fwd: Kernel panic - after upgrade

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:12:26 +0100, Oliver Temlin wrote:
> On 18 January 2015 at 21:04, Csányi Pál <csanyipal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> warning: celestia-addon-sun: /tmp/
> >>                                ^^^^ tmp?
> > What does it mean?
> 
> Ramdisk is mounted on /tmp, thus any file installed to it is lost
> after a reboot. --Oliver Temlin

True for a default Arch install, but in general not entirely true.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /mnt/suse11.2/tmp
total 1.5M
drwx------ 3         108 root  4.0K Aug 17 18:45 .beagleindexwapi.5Qml2BkVwt
-rw------- 1 rocketmouse users  149 Dec 31  2013 bug-buddy-ON108W
drwx------ 2 rocketmouse users 4.0K Jan 15 07:08 .esd-1000
drwx------ 2         109   112 4.0K Jan 15 04:06 .esd-109
drwxr-xr-x 2 rocketmouse users 4.0K Dec  9 10:56 hsperfdata_spinymouse11.2
drwx------ 2 rocketmouse users 4.0K Oct 30  2013 icedteaplugin-spinymouse11.2
drwxrwxrwt 2 root        root  4.0K Jan 15 04:06 .ICE-unix
drwx------ 2 rocketmouse users 4.0K Sep 29 21:15 keyring-bRUdWG
drwx------ 2 rocketmouse users 4.0K Sep 29 20:44 keyring-ls6N8D
drwx------ 2         109   112  36K Jan 15 04:06 orbit-gdm
drwx------ 2 rocketmouse users  28K Jan 15 07:08 orbit-spinymouse11.2
drwx------ 2         109   112 4.0K Jan 15 04:06 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
drwx------ 2 rocketmouse users 4.0K Jan 15 07:08 pulse-YJ5zTKHNh18x
drwx------ 2 rocketmouse users 4.0K Oct 28  2013 seahorse-0jqjxk
[snip]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:13:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> In /tmp/ there are only temporarily files. Nothing seriously can be
> installed to /tmp/.
> 
> "/tmp
> 
> 	Temporary files (see also /var/tmp). Often not preserved
> 	between system reboots." -
> 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

From the same Wiki: "/tmp

	Temporary files to be preserved between reboots."

Anyway, for a default Arch install after a reboot /tmp/ is cleaned and /tmp/ is for temporarily files, so nothing seriously can be installed to /tmp/.