[geeks] Solaris 8 partitioning

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:01:56PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 05:45 , Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > One question, at the minimum, why isn't /tmp and swap on different 
> > drives
> > good?  I really don't know anything about tmpfs though.  Time to go 
> > searching.
> Well, you can put swap on both drives, but on a U1 I don't think it's 
> that necessary.  Tmpfs is essentially a filesystem in swap (phys + vm, 
> as in solaris it's all one thing).  It's nice, because it's fast.  
> Generally, /tmp shouldn't fill up, unless somebody has made a mistake.

Unfortunately, it is my experience that people often do make those
mistakes.  But tbh, having /tmp fill up causes just as much trouble as
using all your VM, as so many apps like to create files in /tmp and they
can fail in interesting ways.

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