On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 16:30, Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 5/6/24 20:19, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>
> > Is that the default layout, or a selectable option?
>
> When you create a partition manually, it asks for the mount point, and
> makes a number of suggestions in a dropdown, and /tmp is one of these.
>
> There is also a "enter manually" option.
>
> > If the latter, to me it makes sense to keep it, maybe with updated
> > wording. Making things customizable is not really an issue, as long as
> > it's clear what happens where.
>
> The only wording there is "/tmp - Temporary files" or something like
> that (has been a while since I saw that particular menu) -- it's an
> option in a menu, so space is limited.
>
> FWIW, I don't see much of a use case for leaving /tmp on the root
> partition, so if no /tmp mount point is configured, mounting a tmpfs is
> a good choice. Basically anything that can boot the installer has enough
> RAM.

Found it:

https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-basicfilesystems/-/blob/master/debian/partman-basicfilesystems.templates?ref_type=heads#L97

So  unless someone has a better suggestion, I can change it from:

"/tmp - temporary files"

To something like:

"/tmp - temporary files (default: tmpfs)"

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