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From: Michael Schmarck <michael.schmarck@×××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:27:07
Message-Id: 3230933.AbgK8bWota@schmarck.cn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp by Steven Lembark
1 Steven Lembark <lembark@×××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 >> On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
5 >>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
6 >>>> Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink
7 >>>> to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both.
8 >>> Why not use tmpfs for /tmp? It usually requires very little space, and
9 >>> will use swap if memory is tight.
10 >>
11 >> I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great:
12 >>
13 >> tmpfs 512M 12K 512M 1% /tmp
14 >
15 > Catch: You loose it all on reboot.
16
17 That's no catch. /tmp is meant to be empty upon reboot.
18 No application should assume that things survive a reboot
19 in /tmp - you use /var/tmp for temporary stuff, which is
20 meant to be available after a reboot.
21
22 > Since things like vi keep their in-work backups
23 > there,
24
25 What? I've got .blah.swp files all over the place.
26 But not in /tmp.
27
28 Michael
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