On Friday, 9 February 2018 08:11:29 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +0000, Wol's lists wrote: > > > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be > > > non-volatile (across reboots). > > > > > > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots). > > > > > > I would advise against mounting /var/tmp on tmpfs. > > > > EMPHATICALLY YES. > > > > /tmp is defined as being volatile - stuff can disappear at any time. > > > > /var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash > > recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs > > that reply on that *defined* behaviour to recover after a crash. > > > > Mounting /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs is perfectly fine as far as I know - > > I do it myself. > > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in > make.conf. Job done!
Acting on the advice of various Gentoo guides, I have this: # grep tmp /etc/fstab tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0 Are you saying I don't gain anything from it? -- Regards, Peter.
