Re: [gentoo-user] Question about compilation

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Wols Lists wrote:
> On 09/02/2025 05:28, Dale wrote:
>> Oops.  I didn't think about it being on tmpfs.
>
> /var/tmp should not be on tmpfs. /tmp may or may not survive a reboot,
> /var/tmp is exlicitly where applications are supposed to store their
> crash recovery stuff, and so it is explicitly defined as surviving a
> reboot.
>
> Doesn't stop people who don't know this from setting their systems up
> wrong - I did that initially :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>


I have mine set up this way. 


tmpfs on /var/tmp/portage type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=73400320k)


It's not /var/tmp that is on tmpfs but /var/tmp/portage that is.  That
way OS related stuff is fine but portage stuff that isn't really needed
in most cases is gone.  I also manually clean it sometimes because
failures can sometimes build up and take up to much space.  On my old
rig, this is really true since it is more limited on memory than the new
rig.  Going from 32GBs to 128GBs is a big increase in options. 

Good thing to check and mention tho.  If not done correctly, it could
cause issues. 

Dale

:-)  :-)