Adivce on Partitions

[John L Fjellstad]

voger <vogernewsletters at yahoo.gr> writes:

> Is it a good idea to put /temp in its own partition? I believe that
> the /temp folder is filled with files that are needed by various
> programs and it's contents are deleted at next boot so these files are
> recreated. This increases file system fragmentation. Am I right? So to
> avoid high fragmentation wouldn't it be better for /temp to be in its
> own partition?

Put it on a tmpfs.  Much faster access, and it gets deleted when you
reboot. 

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John L. Fjellstad
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