bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 14 09:11:42 BST 2009


Mackenzie Morgan [2009-04-10 23:02 -0400]:
> I also never realized before that Ubuntu puts /tmp on disk.  Was
> that always the case?

Yes.

> I thought it used to be a ramdisk.

Well, it *does* become a ramdisk if at boot, / has less than 1 MB of
space. But it's only a fallback, not the default.

Martin

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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
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