[Nottingham] any issues symlinking /tmp -> /var/tmp ?

[Andy Davidson]

Michael wrote:
> Quick question, on my Debian-based system I would like to symlink /tmp 
> to /var/tmp since /var is on a separate partition with space and / is 
> occasionally quickly filled. Any golden rules broken by doing this?

Bang /tmp in memory - the mountpoint for /tmp is mounted from virtual 
memory - wait times to pull this data will be significantly reduced (if 
you have RAM to play with).

Check out tmpfs.

-a

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