Adam Heath wrote: > /tmp is a real directory, and exists on the root filesystem. This allows boot > programs to create temp files. > > Upon bootup, I bind mount /tmp to some other place, that has lots of place. > This allows larger programs after booting to create larger files. This only > works on linux 2.4, however. It's done with the following entry in > /etc/fstab: > > /home.local/tmp /tmp none bind 0 0
It's a lot easier to just use ~/tmp via TMPDIR. The only thing that ever writes to my (90 MB) /tmp is X. You also don't need to worry about /tmp races as much.. -- see shy jo
