Disk partitioning and swap

[Jerry Feldman]

Agreed here. 

On 5 Apr 99, at 0:01, Mike Bilow <mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.


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Gerald Feldman <gaf at mediaone.net>
Boston Computer Solutions and Consulting
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