Empty /tmp when shutting down

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Robert Vangel wrote:

> I never thought of that...
> 
> Nice :)
> 
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> > why not just mount a "tmpfs" filesystem under tmp?  that goes away
> > automatically when you shut down.
> > 
> > rday

a bit of a caveat -- there may be some things you *want* to leave under
/tmp.  my solution is to leave /tmp as a real filesystem, and mount a
tmpfs-style filesystem under /tmp/junk, for a transient location i know
will be cleaned on reboot.  you know how often you download something,
just need a place to put it for a few minutes before installing it, etc.  
that's what /tmp/junk is for.

rday