On Monday, April 28, 2003 at 10:10PM -0400, Short SrA Christopher wrote:
> Follow on to Linux Partitioning:
>
> I've been getting some mixed signals about whether or not to actually put
> /tmp in a separate partition or not. When answering this question keep in
> mind that this is for a home desktop PC.
>
> I honestly think that /tmp being in its own partition would keep
> fragmentation down but it could have some negative side effects when /tmp
> files up. What do you folks think? What would be a safe size?
>
Well, I have heard of people making /tmp a 200MB RAM fs...
That's really nice when you're compiling things, like Xfree86.
If you've got the RAM to spare, I think it is a good idea.
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