On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:59 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Patton"
To: Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] /tmp or /var/tmp
Either tmp can spike into the gigs when people are careless or clueless about how they use graphics converters and/or the print spooler. For a mult-user system it is even more radically unpredictable.
-- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR Agreed. I've seen my /tmp well over a gig when editing with Cinelerra (video). Rendering video and keeping an "undo" level eats space.
I guess it can be a hot button with some, but I still stick with the old school of separate partitions for nearly every root partition. I guess to me...it just feels "safer". Add to that, I am off the power grid, and although it is really rare, there are times that a switch from generator to inverter power will produce a hard crash. In the past 6 yrs, I have only (rather reiserfs) failed to recover ONCE ...and that was a lost /tmp and /usr/lib, both at the same time. I really think that was a head crash, as I was never able to re-use those two partitions. The drive itself, however, is still going strong, a year later. Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org