> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 3:27 AM > To: CentOS mailing list; Sorin Srbu > Cc: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown > > Quoting Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > > Behalf > >> Of Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann > >> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:22 PM > >> To: CentOS mailing list > >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown > >> > >> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Thomas Dukes > <tdukes at sc.rr.com> wrote: > >> > >> I have the /tmp in memory, which effectively deletes everything on > >> reboot. Maybe another solution? > > > > How do you achieve that? > > -- > > /Sorin > > > > using tmpfs? > > http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/create_turbocha > rged_storage_using_tmpfs/ > One thing that's not clear in the two links that have been posted about doing this is, do you add the line or replace the the line already present in /etc/fstab? /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 <---------- none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 Thanks