But with the ability to resize partitions these days I don't think over
allocating /tmp would be a problem. I'd like to not have to resize
partitions but should I not pick the right size then a PartitionMagic boot
disk can be a friend.
Chris Short, SrA USAF
shortc@centcom.mil
-----Original Message-----
From: Kwan Lowe [mailto:kwan@digitalhermit.com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 11:39 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] /tmp Partition
On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 22:10, 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?
There are a lot of arguments for and against putting /tmp on a separate
filesystem. IMHO, for a home system it's not worth the hassle.
On a server you separate /tmp so someone can't fill it with junk to
deliberately crash the system. You can, however, allocate reserve space that
users cannot touch. On that same note, on a server you could make the
argument to separate /var so that logs, rpm databases, spools, and so forth
don't accidentally fill the filesystem. When I administered Sun E6500s and
E10Ks I'd usually separate /var, /usr/local, /home, /opt, /tmp, and /export.
For a home system you (generally) don't have multiple disks. Partitioning
thus would require some measure of precognition to know what you intend to
install further on down the road (or use something like LVM - Linux Volume
Manager). So if you partition /tmp to be large you may end up with not
enough space for your / root partition but gobs of space in /tmp. So for a
typical desktop I only put /home on a separate partition. THis makes
upgrades simple and makes the root partition as flexible as possible.
-- Kwan Lowe <kwan@digitalhermit.com>
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