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Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp



John Hasler wrote:
> Seb writes:
> > I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that
> > allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small
> > for my use of /tmp.  What is the Debianish way to avoid using this
> > system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is available on /?
> 
> Set TEMPDIR appropriately for the processes in question.

TEMPDIR?  Did you mean TMPDIR?

As in:

  mkdir -p $HOME/tmp
  export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp

??  That is a useful configuration.  Although not every program is
coded to honor TMPDIR, most do.

Bob

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