[clue-tech] increase root part after install?

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 13:09 -0700, Will wrote:

>   It is filling your root partition because it is compressing the file
> three times and writing the compressed file to /tmp before deciding
> which one is smallest and coping the smallest file to the directory
> the original file was located in.

Another option is to mount /tmp onto tmpfs (re: a ramdisk).  If you have
lots of memory then this gives you a lot of extra space for temporary
files while not accidentally using up space on the root partition.
Also, some applications that write lots of data to temporary files can
actually run faster if they use a tmpfs instead of /tmp on a disk.

Drawbacks to mounting /tmp on a tmpfs:  What's in /tmp disappears on
reboot every time.  Don't use it for long term storage.  Also, it
reduces available memory for applications.   Can't remember if tmpfs is
dynamically sized.  I think it is.  That could, potentially, also be a
drawback.

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Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>