[arch-general] Can't create /tmp/.X11-unix and /tmp/.ICE-unix while booting

[Tom Gundersen]

Hi Myra,

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
> Thanks, I'll take care of the changes to /tmp. My /tmp is on a
> separate partition and I
> seriously hope there are no file on my /tmp partition even remotely
> close to 256GB.
> The only reason I have a /tmp as large as I do is for extra space when compiling
> something and a separte /tmp partition is to prevent any possible race
> conditions
> from outside influences.

Using tmpfs should work well for you then (shout if it doesn't I'd be
interested to know!).

You could also apply the patch that I linked to, if you prefer to keep
your current setup. Or you could wait for a new initscript release,
which shouldn't be too far off :-)

Cheers,

Tom