[ILUG] /tmp not cleared on reboot

[Walter Faleiro]

Hi Paul,
We have a couple of systems mostly Suse having /tmp mounted as tmpfs as to
increase the /tmp space we just have to add more swap space. But I did not
realise that clearing of /tmp on reboot is anyway associated with it.

Thx,
--Walter

On 11/30/06, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
>
> Hi Walter,
>
> Have a look at /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch and 'man tmpwatch'.
>
> The default seems to be 240 hours, change to whatever suits. If you
> want to have it guaranteed that /tmp is cleared on reboot, mount
> /tmp/ as a tmpfs volume. Put something like:
>
> tmpfs   /tmp    tmpfs   defaults,size=xM        0 0
>
> in /etc/fstab, changing the x in size=xM to be the size in MiB you
> want it to be. Make sure you have at least that much swap available.
>
> regards,
> --
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