On 20120328_103231, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:10:42AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On a wheezy machine > > changing /etc/default/rcS from RANTMP=yes to RAMTMP=no and rebooting > > still gives /tmp as a ramfs. The wheezy host is i686 pentium. Wheezy was > > installed. not upgraded. I don't have email properly installed so this > > report is from one of my squeeze hosts. > > Is there an entry for /tmp in /etc/fstab? Setting RAMTMP=no won't > affect mounts in /etc/fstab?
I gather from your first question that having /tmp be a mountpoint with a physical storage device mounted on it is required. This has not been the case before wheezy, I think. I want to use a portion of the root file system for scratch files required by coreutils sort. The use of the variable TMPDIR as suggested by the sort man page also no longer works, unless, of course TMPDIR points to an active mountpoint, which, I believe, has never been a requirement before wheezy. I notice that the root file system on wheezy is making use of a kernel feature called rootfs. I do not understand rootfs, but I wonder if this use of rootfs may contribute to my problem. If this is not a bug, as I had thought, but intended behavior change, then I need extra hardware to migrate to wheezy. Or can you suggest a different way to get scratch space for sorting large files? Regards, Paul -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
