how big does /tmp need to be?

[Rashkae]

Brian McKee wrote:

> People create partitions for other reasons too.
> 
> One is some kind of performance/disk size issues - e.g. /tmp is on a
> separate faster drive, or it's local when all your other partitions
> are NFS mounted.
> 
> Another reason I can think of is keeping the system up when you run
> out of space.
> For instance, if you have /var/log on a separate partition, and
> something runs wild with logging filling that partition, the system
> stays up and running.  If it's all in one partition then you're hosed.
>  I could see that argument for having /tmp on it's own.
> 
> Lastly if you like playing with file system types - e.g. you use ext3
> for / and xfs for /tmp because you know you do transcoding projects in
> /tmp all the time and muck with big files.
> 
> I suppose the note I should add to my original +1 comment is use LVM
> and then it's easy to change later.
> 
> Brian
> 

Note self, think 5 minutes before posting.. Thanks ;)