I vote for this.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 16:12, Craig Skinner <skin...@britvault.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:35:56 +0000 Stuart Henderson wrote: > > We are short on partitions, there is a hard limit (14+swap), disklabel > auto > > defaults already use 9, and there need to be some free for typical user > use > > (ports, dest for "make release", people often want a separate /var/www > and/or > > /var/log). > > Oh, I wasn't thinking of single disk desktops, but multi-drive servers > (which have plenty partition letters available to slice disks with). > > Here's another idea Stuart:- > > The special directory /tmp/vi.recover/ is exempt from boot & daily purging. > > Could a similar /tmp/sysupgrade/ default directory suit most situations? > > /tmp/ is normally mounted separately from / /home/ /var/ > And probably not encrypted, nor over NFS. > > Cheers, > -- > Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7 > >
