On Dec 14, 2009, at 9:55 AM, <tdukes at sc.rr.com> wrote: > > ---- 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 No, leave the existing /dev/shm, some apps depend on it. You can use the 'none' keyword too for /tmp as in: none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 Either 'tmpfs' or 'none' should work. -Ross