From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:54:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810181754.20331.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810171343.16311.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
On Friday 17 October 2008 12:43:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> I have /tmp and /var/tmp on tmpfs - /tmp is so small it is not worth
> wasting a partition for it.
Yes, and you can enlarge it by creating plenty of swap. My 4GB of real RAM
isn't enough to compile the biggest programs, but setting /etc/fstab
thus: "tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=6g 0 0" I get enough /tmp
space when I need it without have to go out and spend money on more RAM.
Neat.
--
Rgds
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-18 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-15 13:08 [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID? Wolfgang Liebich
2008-10-15 13:13 ` Pintér Tibor
2008-10-15 13:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-17 10:40 ` Wolfgang Liebich
2008-10-17 11:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-17 11:43 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-10-18 16:54 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2008-10-20 6:54 ` Wolfgang Liebich
2008-10-20 9:13 ` Conway S. Smith
2008-10-20 11:24 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-10-20 13:31 ` Conway S. Smith
2008-10-20 15:33 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-10-21 8:59 ` Peter Humphrey
2008-10-21 18:04 ` Liebich, Wolfgang
2008-10-18 5:31 ` jormaa
2008-10-15 13:24 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-10-23 7:18 ` AW: " Liebich, Wolfgang
2008-10-15 13:34 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-10-15 13:41 ` Pintér Tibor
2008-10-15 14:45 ` Dan Cowsill
2008-10-15 16:48 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-10-16 19:42 ` Paul Hartman
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