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Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

Hemmann, Volker Armin

2008-04-13

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On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink
> > to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both.
>
> Why not use tmpfs for /tmp? It usually requires very little space, and
> will use swap if memory is tight.

I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great:

tmpfs           512M  12K 512M  1% /tmp
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