Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> 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

Catch: You loose it all on reboot.

Since things like vi keep their in-work backups
there, loosing the entire contents of /tmp after a
crash can be painful.

If you can redirect anything making in-work copies
to, say, /scratch or ~ then this works nicely (given
that you have enough core not to strangle on it).


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