Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (487 mails)

[Alexis Guéganno <a9emen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 May 2010 22:58, Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 17:25 +0200, Alexis Guéganno wrote:
> > On 7 May 2010 17:14, Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 11:02 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > > Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 schrieb jdd:
> > > > > I was just hit by this, please vote for
> > > > >
> > > > > https://features.opensuse.org/307510
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks :-)
> > > > We put tmpwatch in the default patterns, which takes care of this. Your
> > > > variables only trigger on boot.
> > > >
> > > > Greetings, Stephan
> > >
> > > Other suggestion,
> > > Specially when /tmp is overpopulated, cleaning it the normal way can
> > > takes quite some time.
> > >
> > > In case you don't mind cleaning it entirely (!), one might think about
> > > doing it the sun-os way: unmounting, reformatting, mouting: way faster!!
> > >
> > > hw
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> > Hi !
> >
> > Doesn't it supposed that you mount /tmp on a dedicated partition ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Agemen.
>
> Well that's the best way to be sure any runaway program can not fill the
> entire disk, Just anything below that mount point....
>
> When looking at systems that are intended to do some serious work work
> (in contrast to some play-configurations), you ooften see that /tmp, as
> well as /usr. /opt, /srv, /var, /var/log all got their own mount-points,
> (often using lvm, to allow growing, when size was not forseen properly)
>
>
> hw
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Certainly, yes, but even if the proposed method is faster than what we
can do "normally", i think it would be hard to force end-users
(desktop users) to mount /tmp on a separate partition. Partioning is
already such a pain for many of them, can't understand why, but it
seems to be mysterious...

cheers

agemen

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