On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:46 +0100 "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger@free.fr> wrote:
And if your machine only boots very rarely (because it runs continuously or because you hibernate it instead of rebooting) then your "temporary" folder is never cleaned up. The solution that makes the most sense is to have /tmp on a disk and to use tmpwatch [1][2] in a cron job to clean it up regularly.
Jerome
[1] http://fedorahosted.org/tmpwatch/ [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23510
I am not sure what you mean, but we have uptimes averaging 170 days on the cluster (arch/rhel/ubuntu) and never had a single problem with overfull ext2 /tmp (FS size ~10Gb). Again, you are thinking pure desktop (even not workstation) -- the most important file in your /tmp is a youtube video. What about various backup solutions which run continuously over the above 5 month period? Or various user data which they put in /tmp? Or data from compilation? Or situations when RAM is a resource? Hibernating is a purely windows concept, doing it on a linux machine is basically looking for trouble, especially because hibernation gives no benefits over shutting down. And IMHO putting a simple hook into /etc/pm is much more rational than having yet another daemon. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D