Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:37:18AM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> Howdy, fellow Debianites!
> Given some extra hard drive space, I decided to move my /tmp dir
> (currently located under / ) to a partition of its own. I am looking
> forward to any advice, particularly of the been-there-done-that type:
> * how should I configure my fstab entry? How does Debian installer do
> it?
> * is there anything Debian-specific to watch for?
> * is it true that setting /tmp permissions to non-executable, while
> hardening your box, prevents apt from working properly?
>
Don't forget that the permissions on /tmp are:
rwxrwxrwt
If /tmp is its own partition, you might consider using ext2 for speed.
You could also consider RAID 0, if you have mulitple drives.
-Rob
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