bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:04 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:

> 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?
> 
No, but you can add further swap files to "grow" the available space;
daemons like swapd or swapspace already exist for this.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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