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Offline cheetahman

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« on: June 13, 2005, 12:52:44 PM »
Is it safe to delete some files in the tmp folder and when reinstalling SuSE
is it possible to save the settings from the home folder to import all of the settings.

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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2005, 04:45:05 AM »
Deleting files from the tmp folder will not cause any harm.

Offline gauravbajaj

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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2005, 06:04:54 AM »
Ya u can delete files from tmp directory as they are for temp files & directories

Offline cheetahman

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« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2005, 07:07:58 PM »
Quote from: "gauravbajaj"
Ya u can delete files from tmp directory as they are for temp files & directories


Couldyou give me some examples

Offline h4ck3r

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« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2005, 01:25:01 AM »
Example:

Opening a zip file without extracting it causes the tmp folder to come into play.

The files are extracted @ tmp folder , but u dont realise them.(same for windows/linux)

This folder needs to be cleared periodically in windows/linux for better disk space.

Actually what were about to do won't harm yo pc or hdd.

Offline cheetahman

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« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2005, 05:07:07 PM »
ok show me

Offline Gray

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« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2005, 02:33:41 PM »
cd /tmp
rm filename

thats all for single file

for all files in tmp directory

cd /tmp
rm *