---- Ross Walker <rswwalker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2009, at 7:14 AM, "Thomas Dukes" <tdukes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen
> >> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 3:27 AM
> >> To: CentOS mailing list; Sorin Srbu
> >> Cc: 'CentOS mailing list'
> >> Subject: Re: Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown
> >>
> >> Quoting Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> >>> Behalf
> >>>> Of Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
> >>>> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:22 PM
> >>>> To: CentOS mailing list
> >>>> Subject: Re: Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Thomas Dukes
> >> <tdukes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I have the /tmp in memory, which effectively deletes everything on
> >>>> reboot. Maybe another solution?
> >>>
> >>> How do you achieve that?
> >>> --
> >>> /Sorin
> >>>
> >>
> >> using tmpfs?
> >>
> >> http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/create_turbocha
> >> rged_storage_using_tmpfs/
> >>
> >
> > One thing that's not clear in the two links that have been posted
> > about
> > doing this is, do you add the line or replace the the line already
> > present
> > in /etc/fstab?
> >
> > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3
> > defaults 1 1
> > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3
> > defaults 1 2
> > none /dev/pts devpts
> > gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > none /dev/shm tmpfs
> > defaults 0 0
> > <----------
> > none /proc proc
> > defaults 0 0
> > none /sys sysfs
> > defaults 0 0
> > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap
> > defaults 0 0
>
> Here is what I put in my fstab:
>
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
>
> And your done. By default it will use 1/2 of your memory and under
> pressure it's first to swap and even if you run off swap it gives
> comparable performance to the way it is now.
>
> -Ross
Thanks, Ross
Do I leave this line in tact or remove/replace it:
none /dev/shm tmpfs
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