Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos
<pchrist@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 23:58 Tue 17 May     , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> ...
>> I'd add that if we want /run to be on tmpfs, /var/run and /tmp should
>> both be on tmpfs by default. I've been doing this manually for a year,
>> and so have other distributions.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> A quick look at the size of my desktop's /tmp is:
>
> spirit@Vereniki ~ $ du -sh /tmp/
> 641M    /tmp/
> spirit@Vereniki ~ $
>
> Maybe it's just me (cause of the way I'm using /tmp, eg. I use that dir
> to unpack sources of packages I want to temporarily look inside and
> for anything else *temporary*, also some programs (eg. browsers) use it
> for temporary storage) but if there are others like me, I don't
> think we'd like to do this in RAM space (tmpfs). For /run and /var/run
> dirs it's ok I suppose.
>

Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ?

OTOH, we could use an rc.conf configuration variable to control
whether /tmp is mounted as tmpfs.

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team