On Dec 14, 2009, at 7:14 AM, "Thomas Dukes" <tdukes at sc.rr.com> wrote: > > >> -----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 Here is what I put in my fstab: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 And your done. By default it will use 1/2 of your memory and under pressure it's first to swap and even if you run off swap it gives comparable performance to the way it is now. -Ross