On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23:58 Tue 17 May , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> ... >> I'd add that if we want /run to be on tmpfs, /var/run and /tmp should >> both be on tmpfs by default. I've been doing this manually for a year, >> and so have other distributions. >> > > Hi, > > A quick look at the size of my desktop's /tmp is: > > spirit@Vereniki ~ $ du -sh /tmp/ > 641M /tmp/ > spirit@Vereniki ~ $ > > Maybe it's just me (cause of the way I'm using /tmp, eg. I use that dir > to unpack sources of packages I want to temporarily look inside and > for anything else *temporary*, also some programs (eg. browsers) use it > for temporary storage) but if there are others like me, I don't > think we'd like to do this in RAM space (tmpfs). For /run and /var/run > dirs it's ok I suppose. >
Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ? OTOH, we could use an rc.conf configuration variable to control whether /tmp is mounted as tmpfs. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
