On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 13:41, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just before I do something stupid, I thought I would ask about these >> apparent errors. >> >> Mon May 30 11:49:39 2011: ^[[1;34;40m:: ^[[1;37;40mRemoving Leftover >> Files^[[1;0m ^[[s^[[151G >> ^[[1;34;40m[^[[0;36;40mBUSY^[[1;34;40m]^[[1;0m /bin/mkdir: cannot >> create directory `/tmp/.X11-unix': File exists >> Mon May 30 11:49:40 2011: /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory >> `/tmp/.ICE-unix': File exists >> >> My boot log goes back to 12 May 2011 so that's the earliest I can >> verify this data. I've search flyspray for any bug reports about >> this and didn't find any. Should these two files be deleted on >> shutdown or should they not be created on boot? If they should be >> deleted, where is the error? > > The bug report you are looking for is this one: > <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24279>. It was closed as the fix is > already in git (but not yet released): > <http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/commit/?id=cc1b8a39309fef45d092140fa130d0e82c696a44>. > > Summary: the change was unintentionally introduced by me when changing > some nearby code. It only affects people who have /tmp mounted on a > non-tmpfs partition (people who just leave /tmp on the rootfs are not > affected). The fix will be included in the next release. > > Since I already have your attention, I'd like to suggest you do the following: > > Turn the partiton that is currently holding your /tmp into swapspace > Mount /tmp as tmpfs setting size= the size of your old /tmp partition. > > In addition to solving the bug in question, it will give you better > performance, save power (fewer writes to disk) and increase the amount > of available swap, without increasing the RAM usage. > > For a discussion of why this is almost always the right thing to do > (unless you happen to have files larger than 256GB on your /tmp), have > a look at the above bug report. > > Cheers, > > Tom > Tom Thanks, I'll take care of the changes to /tmp. My /tmp is on a separate partition and I seriously hope there are no file on my /tmp partition even remotely close to 256GB. The only reason I have a /tmp as large as I do is for extra space when compiling something and a separte /tmp partition is to prevent any possible race conditions from outside influences. I'll always accept any help I can get. Old age has dented my memory and it makes things harder to keep up with. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
