On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:46 +0100 "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeber...@free.fr> wrote: > And if your machine only boots very rarely (because it runs > continuously or because you hibernate it instead of rebooting) then > your "temporary" folder is never cleaned up. The solution that makes > the most sense is to have /tmp on a disk and to use tmpwatch [1][2] > in a cron job to clean it up regularly. > > Jerome > > [1] http://fedorahosted.org/tmpwatch/ > [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23510
I am not sure what you mean, but we have uptimes averaging 170 days on the cluster (arch/rhel/ubuntu) and never had a single problem with overfull ext2 /tmp (FS size ~10Gb). Again, you are thinking pure desktop (even not workstation) -- the most important file in your /tmp is a youtube video. What about various backup solutions which run continuously over the above 5 month period? Or various user data which they put in /tmp? Or data from compilation? Or situations when RAM is a resource? Hibernating is a purely windows concept, doing it on a linux machine is basically looking for trouble, especially because hibernation gives no benefits over shutting down. And IMHO putting a simple hook into /etc/pm is much more rational than having yet another daemon. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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