[Novalug] /tmp partition on Fedora

Jeremy Hoel jthoel@gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 11:37:14 EDT 2014


That's funny. I mount /var/tmp to /tmp to have them work the same way.
Haven't had any issues yet.
On Jun 13, 2014 6:43 AM, "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 09:51:05PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:21:45PM -0400, Dave K wrote:
> > > Howdy:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:40:07AM -0400, Derek LaHousse wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:32 AM, John Place <jplace@unixsage.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > Oddly enough one of the first things I used to do on a new install
> was
> > > > > change /tmp from a filesystem to tempfs.. f19 started doing that by
> > > > > default...
> > >
> > > tmp on tmpfs is one of the first things I disable on Fedora.  For the
> > > curious, it's:
> > >   systemctl mask tmp.mount
> > >
> > A note just for completeness.  Caveat, my info is
> > based on net-reading, not hands-on.
> >
> > Masking tmp.mount will prevent mounting ANY filesystem
> > on /tmp.  So if you want to put a separate disk-based
> > FS on /tmp, don't do the mask.
> >
> > An entry for /tmp in /etc/fstab takes precedence over
> > systemD's automatic layering of tmpfs over /tmp.
>
> Also, many platform packages have standardized their tmpfile storage
> so that they use /var/tmp for persistent files.
>
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