[Gllug] Size of tmpfs

[Dylan]

On Friday 10 January 2003 10:49, Bruce Richardson 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 ?)
>
> It's perfectly possible.  Another option introduced with 2.4.0 is to
> remount /tmp at /var/tmp
>
> 	mount --bind /tmp /var/tmp
>
> Which iirc can be done in fstab as
>
> 	/tmp	/var/tmp	none	bind	0 0

er, ok, don't know about so I think I'll leave it out for now

>
> This appeals to me because I have had bad experiences in the past with
> some distributions when I replaced some standard directories with
> symlinks, only to find the package management system removing them and
> putting back the original directory.  Also, ~t explicitly states what
> you're doing.

Eh? ~t?

Dylan

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