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Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2014/07/21 02:50:00
by ataylor
Mmmm, I think the idea is that /tmp is for files that don't survive a reboot and /var/tmp is for those that you want to retain.
Default setup is to use no more than half of RAM, which can be modified.
Alan
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/14 21:43:00
by owl102
gerald_clark wrote:Then it must depend on amount of RAM.
I cannot confirm this. I did a standard install of CentOS 7.0 (Gnome Desktop, but formatting pre-existing ext4 partitions instead of using xfs) on a 8GB Laptop (with/only with SSD), and got no ramdisk for /tmp:
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# df
Dateisystem 1K-Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sda3 24639824 5825904 17539248 25% /
devtmpfs 4025176 0 4025176 0% /dev
tmpfs 4034172 92 4034080 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 4034172 9192 4024980 1% /run
tmpfs 4034172 0 4034172 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda4 206292968 46901832 148888992 24% /home
/dev/sda1 999320 145388 785120 16% /boot
# systemctl is-enabled tmp.mount
disabled
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/15 07:13:20
by giulix63
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 256K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 9.1M 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3 50G 7.5G 40G 17% /
tmpfs 3.9G 20K 3.9G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 3.9G 340K 3.9G 1% /var/log
/dev/sda4 170G 39G 124G 24% /home
/dev/sda2 488M 84M 370M 19% /boot
/dev/sda1 512M 9.6M 503M 2% /boot/efi
tmpfs 788M 24K 788M 1% /run/user/1000
This is F21 with 8GB RAM (/var/log moved by me) and a SSD. Do you guys have SSDs? Maybe that counts too...
P.S. Workstation installation from DVD. Now that I think of it, when I installed I only had 4GB RAM. The other 4 I added later.
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/15 07:41:24
by owl102
giulix63 wrote:This is F21 with 8GB RAM (/var/log moved by me) and a SSD.
I guess it counts (more) if you are installing Fedora or CentOS.
Do you guys have SSDs? Maybe that counts too...
Good idea but the Laptop where I have installed CentOS 7 has a SSD and only a SSD, so this does not seem to count. (Have added this information to my posting above.)
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/15 07:52:36
by giulix63
owl102 wrote:I guess it counts if you are installing Fedora or CentOS. Since this is not the Fedora forum I talk about CentOS 7.
Of course it counts, but Fedora's features often make it into RHEL/CentOS.
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/15 08:00:39
by owl102
giulix63 wrote:Of course it counts, but Fedora's features often make it into RHEL/CentOS.
Yes, but the question remains why matteoIT got a tmpfs for /tmp when installing CentOS 7 and gerald_clark and me not.
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/15 08:11:12
by giulix63
owl102 wrote:And: The Laptop where I have installed CentOS 7 has a SSD and only a SSD. Have added this to my posting above.
That's what I was interested in. I guess that proves the SSD is not the cause.
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/15 08:12:15
by TrevorH
I also have a CentOS 7 install on an 8GB laptop with an SSD and it has /tmp on an LVM LV. Just another data point.
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/15 08:13:21
by giulix63
Installation type/media, maybe?
Re: tmpfs and /tmp partition
Posted: 2015/05/15 08:30:20
by TrevorH
The only other thing I can think of is that mine was an install of 7.0.1406. Did it change in 7.1.1503?