Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: New install, /var on tmpfs

[Tonko Mulder]

Op Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:19:46 schreef Duncan:

> FWIW, I have /tmp on tmpfs, and /var/tmp as a symlink pointing at it.
> There's some stuff in /var/tmp by default that really should go in /var/
> cache instead (as above, it's cache, not tmp, and works best if kept over
> a reboot), but at least here, I was able to point it all elsewhere, thus
> leaving tmp (including /var/tmp) as really tmp.
Don't know what 'FWIW' is, but anyway :)

> Specifically, I have a script that I run from the local service at boot
> that creates individual user tempdirs for a couple users in /tmp (with a
> ~/tmp symlink pointed at the appropriate /tmp/<user> subdir) and
> additionally, creates with the appropriate permissions the various X
> tempdirs (.X11-unix, .ICE-unix, .font-unix, the latter for xfs font
> server I believe).
>
> Additionally, as a KDE user, I had to set and export three KDE* vars in
> my environment, KDEVARTMP and KDESYCOCA to point to a non-tmpfs cache dir
> location (I decided to place them in the user's homedir, not in a system
> dir like /var/tmp, the sycoca var of course points to a filename in the
> dir), and KDETMP to point to the appropriate user tmpdir under /tmp.
> GNOME probably has similar settings, but I'd have no idea what or where
> as I don't run it.
>
> Before setting the KDEVARTMP var I'd lose konqueror and general KDE
> favicon cache, etc.  However, it wasn't anything serious, nor should it
> be, as the spec says /var/tmp is for cached stuff, which is nice to save
> over a reboot, but not critical.  Again, why they don't just use /var/
> cache for that, and save tmp for really tmp stuff, I don't know, but
> that's the way it is.
>
> After making those adjustments, I've had no further issues.

Thanks for the info and I'll try that when I'm ready to boot..
( I wasn't thinking and I created a lvm root partition :P )