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

[Seb <spluque@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:55:36 -0700,
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, setting TMPDIR for programs requiring "large" storage seems the
saner way to go.

Thanks,

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Seb