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Re: Is it safe to rm /tmp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Sun Nov 24 20:31:43 1996
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:29:09 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611242158.QAA09718@sojurn.lns.pa.us> from "Mike Sangrey" at Nov 24, 96 04:58:45 pm
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> A ramdisk for /tmp seems like a really great idea. However, I'm of the
> opinion it really doesn't buy you much. Linux will use the memory more
> efficiently since it has the information it needs to dynamically.
I second that.
> Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the size of /tmp depends on what you're going to be running. Say you sort 100 meg files, for example. You're going to need a big /tmp. Say you are using your linux box as an Xterminal only. You can get away with a /tmp of a couple meg.
If you have your system partitioned with a small area for /, and then
a larger area for /usr, you're probably well off if you symlink /tmp to
/usr/tmp, or even /var/tmp, if you have /var on a separate partition as
well, since the very nature of /tmp files coincide well with the nature
of what /var is for.
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