Hello FA, Did you get an answer to your question? Let me know if you still need help. BMG Brett M. Gilio B.S. Biological Sciences B.M. Music Composition http://www.brettgilio.com/ "Sometimes the obvious is the enemy of the true." - G. Stolzenberg On 11/19/2017 09:53 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > I've been reading the section 'LUKS on LVM' in the wiki page > > <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system> > > and there's something I fail to understand. > > Under 'Preparing the logical volumes', there is: > > # lvcreate -L 500M -n tmp MyVol > > (which isn't shown in the ascii picture just above). > > Later, under 'Configuring fstab and crypttab' a tmpfs is created on the > encrypted /tmp partition: > > dev/mapper/tmp /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > Question: as far as I've understood, a tmpfs resides in RAM, with > overflow to /swap. So why is there a logical volume for /tmp ? > Or put otherwise, if /tmp is to reside on disk, why use a tmpfs ? > > TIA, >
