Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1639 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John E. Perry wrote:
> jdd wrote:
>   
> > ,,,
> > root have reserved area, normally to avoid such problem and always
> > allow root login. but I beg if it's a root app that crashes and fills
> > the disk, this don't work.
> > ...
> >     
>
> Why hasn't anyone yet advised the OP to put /tmp and /var onto a
> separate, dedicated partition? That would solve the whole problem
> without all these struggles.
>
> I can't remember where I got that advice from --wasn't it on this list
> several years ago?
>
> John Perry
>   
There is another solution to the /tmp filling up problem that I noticed
on this list a while back and that is an entry in fstab that creates
/tmp in ram. This will obviously chew up a bit of ram but if you have it
to spare, your /tmp and if you link them to /tmp any other temporary
directories will empty whenever the computer is powered off. I haven't
ram to spare otherwise I would have done this already.
Regards
Dave P

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