On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:34:40 -0400, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com>
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Mike Clarke
<jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk> wrote:
On Saturday 09 October 2010, Arthur Chance wrote:
Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuck in /tmp
that are needed. In single user mode it should be safe, and it
probably is when simply running on the console.
As a long term solution, if you wish to clear /tmp every reboot add
clear_tmp_enable="YES" # Clear /tmp at startup.
to your /etc/rc.conf
You may also want to consider changing /tmp to be a TMPFS file system
add the line
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,mode=01777 0 0
to /etc/fstab (and remove any other /tmp lines).
A warning will come saying that it is highly experimental - but I've
been running with it for a while now without any issues.
I have been using tmpfs (mount /tmp in memory instead of on the hard
drive) on my netbook to save writes to the SSD, and have had no problems.
While there may be important stuff in /tmp at the moment you are running
the system for some reason (like X, apparently), there shouldn't be
anything in there that needs to survive a reboot, if that gives you an
indication of the safeness of deleting things. That's my understanding, if
I'm wrong I'd be interested to hear it.
Brian
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