Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

David Christensen (HE12025-08-10):
> From a risk/ reward standpoint, the risk is that you will trash you system
> while attempting to rearrange partitions and swap.  The reward is that your
> swap space will grow from ~1 GB to ~3 GB.

Or just turn the existing partition into swap without rearranging
anything, the risk is minimal.

> Is your system now using swap (after upgrading Debian)?

/tmp now being a tmpfs will put more stress on the memory.

The point is turning /tmp to tmpfs and its former partition to swap puts
the stress on memory exactly at the same point as it was before, with
the added benefit that tmpfs is more efficient since it does not try to
survive an outage.

> If the answer to both of the above is "yes", then your best solution is to
> add memory.  Do that and ignore nvme0n1p5.
> 
> If the answer to both of the above is "yes" and your computer memory is
> maxed out, then it is time for a new computer with more memory.  Again,
> ignore nvme0n1p5.

Oh, great, the “throw money at it” attitude.

I suppose if Default's children have to go without bread to let buy more
memory, they should just eat cake instead?

-- 
  Nicolas George