how big does /tmp need to be?

[Derek Broughton]

Adam Funk wrote:

> On 2008-08-14, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> LOL.  I have to admit, I didn't think about things like video. _video_
>> never
>> goes to /tmp on my system.  Specifically because it always wants to use a
>> lot more space than I have in /tmp.
>>
>> I used to make a really, really, big swap partition, and put /tmp in
>> tmpfs
>> (ie, it uses part of the swap).  Then I figured I wasn't really wasting
>> space.  But Ubuntu bollixed that and I never got around to fixing it.
> 
> I haven't tried using tmpfs --- why does it not work in Ubuntu?

It should, but some version way back (dapper?) decided to make its own
version of tmpfs, breaking my setup.  Looking at it right now, it seems
my /tmp is on the root fs.  
-- 
derek