Ken Schneider wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Clayton wrote:
Problem solved: I filled the partition with /tmp on it, so nothing
could be parked there. I found out when I tried running the sax2 man
page which crashed but gave me the info I needed
Interesting. I hadn't considered that a full /tmp partition would do
it. I don't have it on a separate partition on any of the systems I
run, so this never came up. I'll be tucking that bit of info away for
future use.
/tmp can fill up even if it's on the root partition...of course,
if that happens, then your root partition is full, too.
Personally, I don't like ANY unnecessary file I/O on my root
partition, so /tmp always gets its own partition
I/O is still I/O that has to be handled by the _disk_ not the
_partition_, so it matters not if /tmp is on it's own partition unless
it is also on a different disk.
Really?
So if the /tmp directory is corrupted, and it is on its
own partition (and therefore, a separate filesystem),
this corrupts the root filesystem how, exactly?
Filesystem corruption (data) is MUCH more common than disk
errors (hardware).
But yes, if I have the resources available, /tmp is also
on a completely different disk than the root filesystem.
Unfortunately, this is not practical on most laptop systems,
but separation onto a separate partition/filesystem can be
done even on a single hard-disk system.
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