On Monday 14 April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: > > I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great: > > > > tmpfs 512M 12K 512M 1% /tmp > > Catch: You loose it all on reboot.
Doesn't matter. The standard definition for /tmp (per FHS) is "contains files that are not expected to persists across different invocations of a program". Never mind reboots, if you just exit and restart vi, it cannot expect the temp file to still be there. vi is a sane program and will in all likelihood respect this almost-universal standard. If anyone wants different behaviour (can't think why...) then configure vi to use a different directory as a scratch pad -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
