On Wednesday 08 November 2006 15:17, Duncan wrote: > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > I decided on an even simpler approach. As I don't really want all the > > other stuff in /var/tmp to evaporate every time I shut down, I put /tmp > > on tmpfs, with this entry in /etc/fstab: > > > > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=85% 0 0 > > Does the 85% actually work as implied? If so, I just learned something > new. =8^)
Can't say yet. I got the info from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt. > > Then I added these entries to /etc/make.conf: > > BUILD_PREFIX="/tmp/portage/build" # not sure I need this > > I don't think you do. I don't have that var set here. I was being cautious, having seen hints that setting a directory name doesn't necessarily also set any others below it. > PORTAGE_TMPFS is a fairly new setting that may not have made it to stable > portage yet. It doesn't appear to have made it into the make.conf manpage > yet, but from make.conf.example: [...] Thanks - there's always one more place to look :-( > Interesting [that PKG_TMPDIR] doesn't seem to be documented, and > PORTAGE_TMPFS is in make.conf.example, but not in the make.conf manpage. > I should file a bug. Perhaps. I may also complain about the inconsistency that some directory specifications are literal while others point to a directory above where data will actually be used. -- Rgds Peter -- [email protected] mailing list
