bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

Kees Cook kees.cook at canonical.com
Tue Apr 14 18:04:51 BST 2009


Hi Scott,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:27:05AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 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).

I don't think this swap file grows on its own, though, does it?

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team



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