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 1JlAP6-0007qs-Dr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:10:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFEA5E04DB; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mx1.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993A1E04DB for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B379FDEC8C for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:11:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R+QIB+dQADDQ for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:03:19 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.ethnet (78-32-181-186.no-dns-yet.enta.net [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9C8DEC88 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:11:28 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:10:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1208104711.24284.18.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> <20080413200256.1392102f@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <200804132228.22490.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200804132228.22490.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804132310.20476.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 1943de05-bb60-4c07-9085-8e49fa5a82a2 X-Archives-Hash: 832f914612a555c87798003a8c15b521 On Sunday 13 April 2008 21:28:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > 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 I can do better than that, on this system with 4GB RAM: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=6g 0 0 No that we're in a competition, you understand. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list