On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:59, "Voytek Eymont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, December 20, 2006 11:38 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > On Wed, December 20, 2006 11:10 pm, Alexander Stanley wrote: > >> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 19 December 2006 08:26, "Voytek Eymont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > >>> > >>> I've been doing this for a number of years. Generally it is a good > >>> idea. > > > > so, do I edit /etc/mtab ? (if I understand the docs, /etc/fstab gets auto > > re-created) > > I've edited /etc/fstab so I get: > > # cat fstab | grep /tmp > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /tmp ext3 defaults,nosuid,nodev 1 2 > > # mount | grep /tmp > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev) > > > is this what I want ?
To those options, I would add 'noatime,nodiratime,noexec'. The first two give
you a tiny bit more speed by not maintaining access times on files (probably
unnecessary on /tmp), while the third prevents anything being executed from
that filesystem (for security).
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