> On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 17:35 +0000, sixpack13 wrote: > > I wouldn't do that. At this time, /var/tmp is expected to be on > permanent storage, some things might expect data to remain available. > Some things might generate more temp files than your RAM (especially if > you burn DVDs or Blurays). If you need to use a temporary file to > debug a problem, you lose it during crashes. Better to take a more > considered way to clean up *old* files. > > When they made /tmp use tmpfs, that caused a plethora of such problems. > what are this "plethora of such problems" extactly ? [*] why *IS* - by this danger's - /tmp per default a tmpfs ? are you thinking the $Fedorian's are complete brain damaged ? crying for more bug reports caused by an wrong/dangerous setup ? > I don't seem to suffer the problems I see commonly mentioned on this > list (filling up hard drives, the wrong kernel booting, continually > having to manually reconfigure grub, etc), the kind of things that are > supposed to take care of themselves, automatically. Probably because I > haven't painted myself into a corner by doing oddball things to my > system in the first place. I don't seem to suffer the problem too *even* if I do like I do and suggest to others ! maybe you think I'm complete brain damaged and suggest things to others that I don't run over month and - for my taste - proof it that way ? I guess with an ~ 8 GB /var/tmp the OP is regarding DVD burning (4.5 GB) on a save side. It also seems to me that he is not very customized (wording ?) with debugging and such things. so for my taste you brought up a lot of "might's". My orientation regarding suggestions to others to prevent trouble are on facts. fact *is* that the OP collected over years (!) ~4.5 GB temp. data reaching back - IIRC - to 2015 or was it 2013 ? fact *is* he ran into trouble caused by the lack of space during upgrade caused by the lack of cleanage over years (!) under / or even better /var/tmp, which isn't a separte partition. IIRC, even the cleanage of /var/tmp would have been the successfull run of the upgrade in the first take. so *I* was thinking of an "automatism" to do the cleanage for him clearly having your "might's" in *my* back of the head by running /var/tmp as tmpfs (~8 (!) GB) since month/years *without* any trouble (so far I might say). [*] to be honest, here could be one of the plethora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1659178 *but* please don't overread "size=2%" in my mount command there which caused the bug/RFC. was "size=2%" a suggestion to the OP. NO ? guess why ! Okay ? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
