On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:25:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > I have now adopted it for my Linux systems, and was pleasantly surprised > > with the functionality provided. The 'on demand' allocation makes it much > > more efficent that a statically allocated partition where any space not > > used for temp files is unavailable for anything else. That, coupled with > > the ability to set an upper limit to reserve a minimum amount of space > > for stop leads me to believe there is no real disadvantage. > > so , can you please detail how you have done this? tmpfs size, > mounting details etc? I'm intrigued by this proposition and would like > more info. thanks
Not much to it. Just add something like this to your /etc/fstab: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=1g 0 0 Merging my old /tmp partition with the original swap partition gave me a 1.5GB swap, of which I have set a maximum /tmp size of 1GB, leaving a minimum of 512MB for swap. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
