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On Friday, 9 February 2018 08:11:29 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +0000, Wol's lists wrote: |
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> > > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be |
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> > > non-volatile (across reboots). |
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> > > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots). |
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> > > I would advise against mounting /var/tmp on tmpfs. |
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> > EMPHATICALLY YES. |
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> > /tmp is defined as being volatile - stuff can disappear at any time. |
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> > /var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash |
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> > recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs |
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> > that reply on that *defined* behaviour to recover after a crash. |
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> > Mounting /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs is perfectly fine as far as I know - |
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> > I do it myself. |
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> Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in |
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> make.conf. Job done! |
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Acting on the advice of various Gentoo guides, I have this: |
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# grep tmp /etc/fstab |
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tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775 0 0 |
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tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0 |
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Are you saying I don't gain anything from it? |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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