Last night, while at work, I was trying to think of ways to reduce disk usage on my laptop (thus increasing battery life). I already mount /tmp as tmpfs, and was wondering what else might be a good idea to mount as tmpfs..
I figured /var/log might be a good candidate, so I stopped metalog, backed up /var/log, then deleted everything, and did: # mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/log -o size=10M then started metalog again. I also edited /etc/init.d/metalog, so that when stopped, saves the logs to /var/log.save, and upon starting copies the files back over to /var/log. Another cool thing is that I can now turn buffering off for metalog, w/o having to constantly write to disk :) All this leads to my question... is there any reason I shouldn't do this? Thanks, Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
