Disk partitioning and swap

[Mike Bilow]

Jerry Feldman wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

> First of all, /tmp is rarely used.  

 JF> That is true, but there are still programs that use it. I
 JF> have not checked the  /tmp usage on Linux, but on commercial
 JF> Unix systems some legacy  applications were hard coded to
 JF> /tmp. One is the old /bin/mail program.  Also, any program
 JF> needing temporary storage in single user mode.  

My point, in context, was that moving /tmp to a ramdisk is a waste of RAM.
 
-- Mike


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