/home partition location

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Mar 31 13:36:34 UTC 2008


Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 23:25 -0300 schrieb Derek Broughton:
> 
>> have 4 drives, I think I'd want /var and swap on different drives (Ubuntu
>> puts /tmp on tmpfs - which _is_ in swap, anyway).

> only in the live session, the installed system doesnt put /tmp in a
> tmpfs since you would run out of ram pretty soon with that if you dont
> reboot regulary.

I don't reboot regularly and I don't run out of tmp space.  I just give it
1GB. I guess you're right though that Gutsy didn't put /tmp on a tmpfs, but
I'm absolutely certain that an earlier version did - because it was causing
problems with an app I had that took a fair bit of investigation to track
down.
-- 
derek





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