[Gllug] Size of tmpfs

Dylan dylan at dylan.me.uk
Fri Jan 10 12:49:48 UTC 2003


On Friday 10 January 2003 11:55, Adam Bower wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:22:19AM +0000, Dylan wrote:
> > Now, I'd like to get the contents of /var/tmp into the tmpfs as well.
> > Obviously I could set up two tmpfs's - one for /tmp and one for /var/tmp.
> > Would it be possible/advisable to set up a link from one to the other
> > (i.e. a link from /var/tmp to /tmp ?)
>
> Unless I am mistaken the tmpfs contents of /tmp are not preserved over
> reboots? in which case it would breach the Linux fhs
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.15.html
>
> "5.15 /var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system reboots" although
> if this would be a problem or not would be down to you.

Since /var/tmp seems to be permanently empty, I figure I'll leave it as it is.

Dylan

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