---- Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Thanks, Ross Do I leave this line in tact or remove/replace it: none /dev/shm tmpfs