FS#2129 - Symlink from /var/tmp to /tmp

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jan Huelsbergen (afoo) - Thursday, 03 February 2005, 08:12 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Archlinux creates /tmp as tmpfs, which I think is a good idea. However, some packages (including KDE) use /var/tmp for their temporary files, so I think it would be good to make /var/tmp a symlink to /tmp by default. I run this setup since ~2 weeks and didn't experience any problems.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Thursday, 03 February 2005, 21:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 03 February 2005, 08:19 GMT
I hate the use of tmpfs for /tmp, so I wreck the /tmp mountpoint from my /etc/fstab.
Using tmpfs to store useless files is, as the files are: useless. It costs you RAM and whenever you install something large that extracts to /tmp, you're fucked.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 03 February 2005, 21:05 GMT
I think I'll leave /var/tmp alone, so we have a non-tmpfs alternative for larger temp files.

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