Sytem Administration / Paths

[Gary L Greene Jr]

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On Sunday 18 April 2004 02:55 pm, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> >> Agreed, but what are you going to write in the KCM?
> >>
> >> Where to store temporary files:
> >> Where to store really big temporary files:
> >
> >Which is the big question.  Would they be different locations?
>
> For me, yes.
>
> As I said, my 384MB RAM-based /tmp is enough for almost anything I throw
> at it. I don't expect applications to go on creating large (>50 MB)
> files behind my back.
>
> I don't want to put a 700MB CD image inside my /tmp because that would
> go to my RAM and consume precious resources. (I have 768 MB worth of
> RAM)
>
> On the other hand, I *do* want small files to go to /tmp because it's
> way faster than a disk-based filesystem and it gets automatically
> cleaned up at boot time.
>
> Ok, so not many people use tmpfs /tmp. But I know a lot of people who
> have small root filesystems, but large /home and /usr. That means /tmp
> would be restricted in size too.

IIRC (I haven't used MDK in a while...) that the default configuration under 
MDK makes /tmp a tmpfs mount point.

> BTW, my /var/tmp has even less space available than /tmp.

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