Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink >>> to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both. >> Why not use tmpfs for /tmp? It usually requires very little space, and >> will use swap if memory is tight. > > I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great: > > tmpfs 512M 12K 512M 1% /tmp
Catch: You loose it all on reboot. Since things like vi keep their in-work backups there, loosing the entire contents of /tmp after a crash can be painful. If you can redirect anything making in-work copies to, say, /scratch or ~ then this works nicely (given that you have enough core not to strangle on it). -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 888 359 3508 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
