Linux and data storage?

[Luke Davis]

A word to Karen: if you do any of the tarish things discussed in this 
thread, be certain to delete the backup archive, after it has completed 
its transit.  /tmp is only cleared on reboot, and that usually only 
happens 1.5 times per year.

  On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Yes, this is useful. It's probably beyond what she needs to be concerned
> about, but certainly useful.
>
> Luke Davis writes:
>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
>>
>>> 600 certainly does help. Can you build a tar and chmod at the same time?
>>
>> Hmm, an interesting question.  There are two ways to test this idea, which
>> I will now attempt...
>>
>> Starting the tar process in one window (using screen), and in another
>> listing the file in /tmp, shows, 644.  Doing a chmod to 600, while the tar
>> is still in progress, then listing the file again, shows 600.  So that
>> solution appears to work, as would, of course, backgrounding the tar
>> process, and changing the mode.
>>
>> The other method:
>>
>> touch /tmp/ldtf.tbz
>> chmod 600 /tmp/ldtf.tbz
>> tar --bzip2 -cf /tmp/ldtf.tbz ~/
>>
>> also acomplishes the task of keeping the file private, so I suppose the
>> answer is yes, in all possible ways.