2011/11/29 "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger@xxxxxxx>: > David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> On 11/25/2011 11:55 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote: >>> Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important >>> dir, where >>> you might have an valuable info in case of a system crash. I could never >>> understand the logic behind this choice. >> >> Actually, I think it makes a lot of sense. It lets you truly use it as >> a repository for "temporary" files. Any files written there will get >> automatically wiped out at the next boot. >> > And if your machine only boots very rarely (because it runs > continuously or because you hibernate it instead of rebooting) then > your "temporary" folder is never cleaned up. The solution that makes > the most sense is to have /tmp on a disk and to use tmpwatch [1][2] > in a cron job to clean it up regularly. > > Jerome > > [1] http://fedorahosted.org/tmpwatch/ > [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23510 You should also be able to use /usr/lib/initscripts/arch-tmpfiles, which is what we use at boot, and which should have a similar functionality to tmpwatch (if you are using systemd you'll get a similar functionality for free). -t
