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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>> Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink |
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>>> to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both. |
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>> Why not use tmpfs for /tmp? It usually requires very little space, and |
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>> will use swap if memory is tight. |
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> I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great: |
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> tmpfs 512M 12K 512M 1% /tmp |
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Catch: You loose it all on reboot. |
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Since things like vi keep their in-work backups |
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there, loosing the entire contents of /tmp after a |
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crash can be painful. |
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If you can redirect anything making in-work copies |
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to, say, /scratch or ~ then this works nicely (given |
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that you have enough core not to strangle on it). |
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