Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Dennis Kaptain wrote: > Rick Stevens suggested "systemctl mask tmp.mount" as a fix. I tried > that and then I couldn't log in. It turns out, that command will make > my / partition read only. Following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs#Release_Notes has always worked for me.

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 12:39:39 -0500 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: > > It still doesn't seem like an ideal way to handle /tmp when I have a > > perfectly good partition and swapping is a major performance killer. > > I'd rather disk access wait time is caused by accessi

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: > It still doesn't seem like an ideal way to handle /tmp when I have a > perfectly good partition and swapping is a major performance killer. > I'd rather disk access wait time is caused by accessing /tmp when I > need to rather than swapping tmpfs in and out

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 08 August 2014, Dennis Kaptain sent: > Rick Stevens suggested "systemctl mask tmp.mount" as a fix. I tried > that and then I couldn't log in. That sounds like a very old problem. I encountered that, many years ago, when I swapped hard drives on a PC. Check the permissio

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Anthony Messina
On Friday, August 08, 2014 10:32:15 AM Dennis Kaptain wrote: > So, how do I turn off fedora's tmpfs forever so I can use my physical > /tmp partition and not consume all my valuable RAM? Or stated > otherwise, how do I disable tmpfs AND keep / read-write? systemctl mask tmp.mount -A -- Anthony

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Dennis Kaptain
2014-08-08 10:46 GMT-05:00 Chris Adams : > Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: >> While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy >> of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will >> consume 50% of my RAM and mount itself in /tmp. If you have gobs of >

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: > While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy > of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will > consume 50% of my RAM and mount itself in /tmp. If you have gobs of > RAM I suppose you'd never miss it unless you