From: aw@math.uni-sb.de (Arne Wichmann) Subject: Re: disk partitioning for linux (at last!) Date: 27 Feb 1993 15:27:38 GMT
In article <1993Feb25.143727.19318@worak.kaist.ac.kr> wgcho@cair.kaist.ac.kr (Cho Wongyu) writes:
>I think it is not neccessary to make an extra partition for /tmp as long as
>you're not gonna play with huge temporary files. Even if you do, I think it
>would be better to put the 20 MB of /tmp into / so that you would have more
>space for new applications. If you're not going to install that much
>applications, you still have the 20MB for /tmp, as you wanted.
As far as I know the reason why many people do put /tmp in a partition for
its own is fragmentation. In /tmp many (more or less) small files tend to
be created very often, so if you have /tmp in 1 partition with /home, you
tend to get small holes in your files, which come from created and deleted
/tmp-files.
But going from this reasoning, it seems ok to put /tmp into / or /usr,
because the files there don't change a lot. (Maybe /usr/spool, but thats
another question.)
Disclaimer: I'm not a real Computer-Hero, so I might be very wrong...
Oh... by the way, what happened to the defragger?
AW
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