On 13/06/2012 03:53, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/12 Bjørn Mork wrote: > >> I still think that the easy tmpfs resizing makes it superior for /tmp. > > Why do people repeat that tmpfs is easy to resize? Yes, you need about 3 > commands to resize tmpfs, but you need 0 (zero!) commands to resize /tmp on > disk, because it's large by default and you don't need to resize it. It's > easier to NOT resize /tmp on disk then resize /tmp on tmpfs, isn't it? ;) Obviously, you only think of /tmp as mounted on /. This is often seen as not a good move to have a user-writable directory on the system partition(s), since this provides for easy DOS (even involuntary; I know of people daily working with 30GB files, and this easily fills the / partition). -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq (beating a dead horse)
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