2012/6/11 Roman V.Leon. <roman...@meta.ua>: > On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote: >> >> 2012/6/7 Hendrik Boom<hend...@topoi.pooq.com>: >>> >>> I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp >>> entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses >>> the the space on the root partition, which has more than room enough. >>> But then I discover that in my newly installed wheezy system, there *is* >>> no /etc/fstab entry for /tmp. Apparently the kernel, all by itself, >>> decides to mount the tmpfs on /tmp. >>> >>> How can I get it not to do this? >>> >> Edit /etc/default/rcS and switch RAMTMP=yes to RAMTMP=no. >> >> If you're on a workstation, it should be fine as-is. > > > I can't agree with assertion that this default behaviour is fine. I use > "Eclipse" in my work, and yesterday i was ready to crash my head, because > Eclipse showed me an error that it had not enough space to downloading and > installing special plugin, which i was needed. I've checked 10 times that > all file systems had enough space, in the end i've found the problem by > doing `watch -n 1 df -h`. The /tmp folder (which was mounted like tmpfs) was > filling only when extracting of the plugin was active. All I want to say, > that sometimes this /tmp which mounted like tmpfs can lead to problems which > is hard to find. > When I said it should be fine as-is, I meant with RAMTMP=no, so with /tmp directly on / :)
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