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 1KrFGo-0007Tt-Hz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:07:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B347E034B; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1EF5E034B for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:06:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC0DDF140 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:07:00 +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 UCC4Npd3YqMv for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:59:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B18DF101 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:06:59 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <48F5EB5C.4020402@siemens.com> <48F86BB4.3060206@siemens.com> <200810171343.16311.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200810171343.16311.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: <200810181754.20331.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 44e5f61f-b756-49e3-a46c-51e6e76198dc X-Archives-Hash: a353815938b63368dfebc456b7cf206b 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