Re: tmp on tmpfs

From	Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: tmp on tmpfs
Date	2023-04-24 19:40 +0200
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:02:30 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 12:16:36PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:52:23 +0200
> > tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > "Mounting /tmp to tmpfs may be a good thing in some rare cases, but it's
> > a bad default. It breaks a lot of things and, which is more important,
> > brings nothing good."
> 
> "A lot of things" means here: it can run out of space. That's it.
> 
> Any other downsides?

No. What the author means is that lots of different applications and
use cases can break badly with /tmp on tmpfs - see the '"/tmp on tmpfs
is bad" quotes' section of the post:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html

(BTW, I really think that you should avoid snipping the link to the post
that we're discussing from your replies.)

-- 
Celejar

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/etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-18 17:00 +0200
  Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-04-18 17:40 +0200
    Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-18 19:00 +0200
    Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-18 21:10 +0200
      Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2023-04-18 23:20 +0200
        Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-19 06:40 +0200
          tmp on tmpfs Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 08:20 +0200
            Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-19 08:40 +0200
              Re: tmp on tmpfs Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-04-19 09:00 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs tomas@tuxteam.de - 2023-04-19 10:00 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2023-04-24 18:20 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-24 19:10 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2023-04-24 19:40 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2023-04-24 18:20 +0200
              Re: tmp on tmpfs Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 13:10 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-19 20:10 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 15:00 +0200
              Re: tmp on tmpfs Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-04-20 16:20 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-20 16:30 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-04-20 17:20 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 16:30 +0200
                Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-20 16:40 +0200
  Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-18 18:00 +0200
  Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-18 22:10 +0200
    Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-18 23:50 +0200
      Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-19 00:00 +0200
      Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-19 02:00 +0200
        Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 03:20 +0200
          Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-04-19 04:50 +0200
          Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-19 05:00 +0200
          Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-19 05:10 +0200
            Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-19 05:20 +0200
              Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-19 11:20 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 13:10 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 22:10 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-19 22:40 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 23:00 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 23:10 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-20 01:50 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 03:50 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 15:10 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2023-04-21 11:10 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-21 13:20 +0200
                gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 15:00 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-20 15:40 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 20:40 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-20 22:10 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-21 00:50 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-04-21 01:10 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-21 19:50 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-04-20 15:40 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 17:30 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 20:30 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-22 08:40 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-20 22:50 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-21 00:50 +0200
                Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-21 04:40 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-04-19 22:40 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-19 23:10 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 23:30 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-20 00:10 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-20 00:20 +0200
                [SOLVED] Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 02:30 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-20 03:00 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-21 17:20 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-22 00:50 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-22 17:30 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-23 04:00 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-23 06:20 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-23 10:20 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2023-04-24 18:30 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-25 15:00 +0200
                old memory sticks (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-23 17:20 +0200
                [SOLVED]: old memory sticks songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-24 03:50 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 15:10 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 17:20 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-21 06:30 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-21 06:50 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 16:30 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-19 22:40 +0200
                Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 22:40 +0200

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