On 05/12/17 21:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:09:56 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> $ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab >> tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs >> noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775 0 0 >> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs >> noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0 > > Or you could set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to /tmp to save the second mount. > Dunno why portage puts this stuff in /var/tmp, rather than /tmp, but do be aware of what the standard says ...
Stuff in /tmp should be cleared at shutdown/boot. Stuff in /var/tmp should survive a shutdown/boot. Of course, if, like me you've put /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs, then of course it won't survive a reboot, contrary to spec ... :-) Cheers, Wol
