On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 19:36 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > One option is tmpfs. Put something like this in /etc/fstab: > none /tmp tmpfs nodev,noexec 0 0 > and everything in /tmp will be deleted whenever the system is rebooted > or powered down (unless you hibernate). > > If you have plenty of memory, files in /tmp might never actually reach > disk, which can improve performance on some tasks. But bear in mind that if you don't have plenty of memory, and you need to create large temporary files, you can have a problem. e.g. Burning discs that need to create the entire iso image file in the /tmp space. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org