bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

[Scott James Remnant]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 23:02 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

> I have a 10GB / and have run into it quite a lot on Jaunty what with those 
> 300MB updates we get sometimes, I just don't submit the reports because I can 
> see quite clearly that I ran out of space (again) and then I go clean things 
> up manually.  Turns out texlive takes up quite a lot of disk space.  I also 
> never realized before that Ubuntu puts /tmp on disk.  Was that always the 
> case?  I thought it used to be a ramdisk.
> 
It's always been that way, many applications write out files to /tmp
first (including web browser downloads, etc.)

On of the things I'm strongly thinking of proposing for Karmic is to
switch to having /tmp on a tmpfs, as long as the user has a swap *file*
rather than a partition.

(That way /tmp is only limited by available disk space, rather than an
arbitrary swap partition size).

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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