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Tonko Mulder <tonko.mulder@×××××.com> posted |
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200802060847.50748.tonko.mulder@×××××.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 06 |
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Feb 2008 08:47:42 +0100: |
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> Op Wednesday 06 February 2008 08:39:46 schreef Volker Armin Hemmann: |
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>> On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Tonko Mulder wrote: |
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>> > I'm doing a new install and since I put /tmp on tmpfs I was wondering |
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>> > if I could put /var on tmpfs as well. |
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>> no. |
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>> You can put |
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>> /var/tmp |
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>> on tmpfs, but 'the spec' says, that stuff in /var/tmp should survive a |
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>> reboot. |
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>> So |
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>> /var/tmp/portage |
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>> that is save. |
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> Oke, thanks. All needed to know :) |
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FWIW, I have /tmp on tmpfs, and /var/tmp as a symlink pointing at it. |
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There's some stuff in /var/tmp by default that really should go in /var/ |
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cache instead (as above, it's cache, not tmp, and works best if kept over |
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a reboot), but at least here, I was able to point it all elsewhere, thus |
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leaving tmp (including /var/tmp) as really tmp. |
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Specifically, I have a script that I run from the local service at boot |
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that creates individual user tempdirs for a couple users in /tmp (with a |
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~/tmp symlink pointed at the appropriate /tmp/<user> subdir) and |
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additionally, creates with the appropriate permissions the various X |
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tempdirs (.X11-unix, .ICE-unix, .font-unix, the latter for xfs font |
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server I believe). |
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Additionally, as a KDE user, I had to set and export three KDE* vars in |
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my environment, KDEVARTMP and KDESYCOCA to point to a non-tmpfs cache dir |
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location (I decided to place them in the user's homedir, not in a system |
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dir like /var/tmp, the sycoca var of course points to a filename in the |
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dir), and KDETMP to point to the appropriate user tmpdir under /tmp. |
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GNOME probably has similar settings, but I'd have no idea what or where |
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as I don't run it. |
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Before setting the KDEVARTMP var I'd lose konqueror and general KDE |
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favicon cache, etc. However, it wasn't anything serious, nor should it |
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be, as the spec says /var/tmp is for cached stuff, which is nice to save |
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over a reboot, but not critical. Again, why they don't just use /var/ |
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cache for that, and save tmp for really tmp stuff, I don't know, but |
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that's the way it is. |
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After making those adjustments, I've had no further issues. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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