On 05/04/12 04:38, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh: >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:00:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: >>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Joey Hess wrote: >>>> Edit /etc/default/rcS, set RAMTMP=no, reboot. Or, set TMPDIR to >>>> point to something like $HOME/tmp >>> >>> You don't need to reboot because of the size change. >>> >>> "mount -o remount,size=<desired size> /tmp" works, at least for >>> increasing size. One of the good things of a tmpfs is that you can >>> resize it dynamically. >>> >>>> You may also consider filing a bug, since the more people report >>>> problems with Debian's new, absurdly small /tmp, the more likely it >>>> is to get fixed. >>> >>> Hmm, yes, it can certaily be raised by popular demand. But what >>> would probably help more is a set of profiles of /tmp sizes based on >>> the amount of system ram to provide the initial default size. >> >> I noticed yesterday that Fedora is planning to go for using >> tmpfs on /tmp as well. >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4MTg >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs >> >> Note that the latter has useful advice and notes in the Q&A >> section which does pertain to the problems discussed in this >> thread. It's clear that some of the problems will be fixed >> as they are additionally found in Fedora, particularly WRT >> the storage of large files on /tmp. It also notes that a >> number of other distributions are also picking this up as >> well, e.g. Ubuntu and Arch, so we are by no means alone in >> implementing this. > > I like the notion to just use /var/tmp for anything big by default.
Doesn't that require manually deleting files when they're no longer required? > Of course this means changing applications like for example K3b, which uses > /tmp for temporary images by default. At least it does here. > Likewise on Squeeze. /tmp/kde-$user Easily changed:- K3B (2.0.1) => Settings => Configure K3b.... => Miscellaneous settings Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7ce434.7010...@gmail.com