Stephan Seitz <stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net> writes: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:33:13AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>Personally I thing DVD ISO images (downloaded) belong in your $HOME > > Donât you think this is getting quite ridiculous? Big temporary > files belong in your $HOME, but small temporary files in /tmp? Only to > switch /tmp from disk to RAM?
No, I just don't consider a 4.7GiB download a temporary thing. I still have the mindset that that should take time, cost money and therefore be precious and should not be lost on reboot. >>somewhere. And locally generated should just pipe the image to the >>burner unless you want to upload the image somewhere, in which case > > Or you want to keep it safe, until you are sure the burned DVD is > working. > > Of course, if I want to keep the ISO it will be stored in $HOME, but > then it isnât a *temporary* file anymore. And /tmp *is* for > temporary files. > >>$HOME again. Just imagine a power failure after you painstackingly >>uploaded 99.9% of the iso and then you have to start from scratch again >>because a reboot cleans /tmp. > > TMPTIME exists and can be set according to your needs and your safety > concern. Yeah, as noticed somewhere else TMPTIME conflicts with tmpfs. Didn't even know that variable existed. So many hidden magic things to configure stuff ... >>Just out of interest: Do you have /tmp on /? Because if you do already >>have a seperate /tmp partition then that obviously stays used. > > I always have separate partitions for /, /usr, /var, /tmp, /usr/local > and /home (allright, with crappy software like udev and Co. which > starts wanting files in /usr needlessy at the early boot stages, I > will merge / and /usr in time). It isnât a problem for me. > > But we are talking about defaults. You wish to tell new users that > there two TB disk canât really be used as they wish because Debian > has a strange distinction between temporary files belonging in /tmp > and temporary files donât belonging in /tmp? But does the default have to be maximised for the dumbest possible user? Or should the default rather be for the intelligent user doing the right things? > According to the discussion the installer will create one partition > for swap and one for /. If this is true then the standard user has far > more space on disk than he has RAM. Just wait one more release and it will only be one partition with swap files. And lets give that partition a drive letter like "C:\". :) I realy don't like the direction DI is taking there. > Shade and sweet water! > > Stephan MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/873968ajsk.fsf@frosties.localnet