On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:11:08PM -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well /tmp should be mounted tmpfs anyway (I have been doing this for > > years and it is working just fine). > > tmp isn't a persistent storage so it makes a lot of sense, and it is > > *not* a dumping ground for giant files (apps that try to do that are > > just broken). > > Unfortunately firefox is one of those apps. I experimented with tmpfs > /tmp a while back, and ran into very much badness. /tmp rapidly gets > all full of large PDFs I've clicked on, as well as the flash plugin > seems to like to spool video its streaming in /tmp. > > In fact on my servers I symlink /tmp to /home/tmp, as I like to keep > root small as possible and maximize /home. And no, a dedicated /tmp > filesystem is silly, why would I want to dedicate a fixed slice of > disk space to /tmp that isn't going to be used 99% of the time, and > will inevitably turn out to be not big enough %1 of the time? You can add a cherry on top of your /home/tmp solution using per-user /tmp: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/FedoraPeopleConfig#polyinstantiated_tempdirs Which is very cool solutions, although orthogonal to the problem described ;) -- Tomasz Torcz There exists no separation between gods and men: xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx one blends softly casual into the other. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
