how big does /tmp need to be?

[Karl Larsen]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
>   
>> The only reason I can think of to use a separate partition for anything,
>> be it /var or /home, is to preserve that data when something else is
>> being destroyed/overwritten.
>>     
>
> 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
>
>   
    I have a good example of a useful partition and that is /home. I 
have two versions of Ubuntu on this computer and when I change I see no 
change of any major sort when I look at the Desktop because it IS the 
same. You just load the partition in /etc/fstab in both versions.

Karl


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