From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMiqe-00079j-W4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:53:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87AC5E051C; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35385E051C for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so393230wah.10 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:53:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=UhB/irTImzXQZRI1+ih9L/3jbeQkY+lifLa4tslIJEw=; b=BJXDYoc3jFAxIcxMWSeD3LYy2oa3uQuwvDXh8brgRPeLCkLNwtDIngO+b1oDfVrSzAqG4+mEsu3rbJfY0969JryFjM1R3pplHdzybC465dkgy7qIcI9zt2OZlf5017bsisoKrkeMa3Th7UTw6qpGXAbMczBCz8otC00MP4QlgUE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=dxIP5yl/oJIIvP1OvloHkHFPUqKSXwInKgw/2uEBIEF7K9cZf+goMlBrSqRhu1nI0m+7tkKoJnlHPfhIYtU1COdm3NQ/wWGd31H1SIJAFPfBzEaZ1R8lBvXMJ1UMTO17cmccf5eH5w5qczrNItpgZqYEPHWhYB6e/9//V9aBC1o= Received: by 10.114.146.1 with SMTP id t1mr2251467wad.20.1202298829651; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from pulzzz.local ( [213.148.230.223]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h4sm25950970nfh.8.2008.02.06.03.53.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:53:48 -0800 (PST) From: Tonko Mulder To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: New install, /var on tmpfs Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:53:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <43ba12950802052219m2e8ce3ebw6d33f4f0d5ed6b1b@mail.gmail.com> <200802060847.50748.tonko.mulder@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1612626.QfH2YF4GE0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200802061253.45910.tonko.mulder@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0fce7be6-24c5-4f78-acc8-2aa0392b7244 X-Archives-Hash: fba054898c43360b0759b17cc5f26b84 --nextPart1612626.QfH2YF4GE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Op Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:19:46 schreef Duncan: > FWIW, I have /tmp on tmpfs, and /var/tmp as a symlink pointing at it. > There's some stuff in /var/tmp by default that really should go in /var/ > cache instead (as above, it's cache, not tmp, and works best if kept over > a reboot), but at least here, I was able to point it all elsewhere, thus > leaving tmp (including /var/tmp) as really tmp. Don't know what 'FWIW' is, but anyway :) > Specifically, I have a script that I run from the local service at boot > that creates individual user tempdirs for a couple users in /tmp (with a > ~/tmp symlink pointed at the appropriate /tmp/ subdir) and > additionally, creates with the appropriate permissions the various X > tempdirs (.X11-unix, .ICE-unix, .font-unix, the latter for xfs font > server I believe). > > Additionally, as a KDE user, I had to set and export three KDE* vars in > my environment, KDEVARTMP and KDESYCOCA to point to a non-tmpfs cache dir > location (I decided to place them in the user's homedir, not in a system > dir like /var/tmp, the sycoca var of course points to a filename in the > dir), and KDETMP to point to the appropriate user tmpdir under /tmp. > GNOME probably has similar settings, but I'd have no idea what or where > as I don't run it. > > Before setting the KDEVARTMP var I'd lose konqueror and general KDE > favicon cache, etc. However, it wasn't anything serious, nor should it > be, as the spec says /var/tmp is for cached stuff, which is nice to save > over a reboot, but not critical. Again, why they don't just use /var/ > cache for that, and save tmp for really tmp stuff, I don't know, but > that's the way it is. > > After making those adjustments, I've had no further issues. Thanks for the info and I'll try that when I'm ready to boot.. ( I wasn't thinking and I created a lvm root partition :P ) --nextPart1612626.QfH2YF4GE0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHqZ/Jec8Eev67f1sRAv3lAKDmEcGKfkSun1jCtiyNbEd0ep25igCaA+Fz Dz3EhzAj3HzEkp3lTi8pgJk= =84au -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1612626.QfH2YF4GE0-- -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list