Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Adam Heath wrote:
> /tmp is a real directory, and exists on the root filesystem.  This allows boot
> programs to create temp files.
> 
> Upon bootup, I bind mount /tmp to some other place, that has lots of place.
> This allows larger programs after booting to create larger files.  This only
> works on linux 2.4, however.  It's done with the following entry in
> /etc/fstab:
> 
> /home.local/tmp /tmp            none    bind    0       0

It's a lot easier to just use ~/tmp via TMPDIR. The only thing that
ever writes to my (90 MB) /tmp is X. You also don't need to worry about
/tmp races as much..

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see shy jo