On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 23:43 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:19:37PM +0900, Joel wrote: > > A separate partition for /tmp is usefully when something tries to fill > > /tmp, because it does not end up filling / . So I like to give it 1GB. > > Careful with that -- you don't want to end up with files from the boot > process covered up in the /tmp mountpoint.... I use a separate /tmp partition as a matter of routine and haven't encountered any boot problems as a result. For security reasons I mount this partition with nodev and noexec, and doing *that* has resulted in a couple of issues: 1. the stock FC3 logrotate package creates a temporary script there to do the pre- and post-rotate jobs, and this breaks because it won't run. This is fixed in the recent development packages. 2. the build process for a few RPM packages involves running processes in the buildroot, which by default is in /tmp (the sendmail package runs "makemap" like this for instance). This can be fixed by moving the RPM build root elsewhere. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
