Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : boraxman
From : McDoob
Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 11:24:42

 bo> Some Linux systems will use tmpfs for /tmp, but I generally also mount
 bo> another tmpfs drive under /mnt/tempfs as a temporary scratch space.

When I installed Linux Mint on my laptop, I used tmpfs for /tmp and /var/log. I didn't want them using half of the 16 GB of RAM in it, so I limited each to 1 or 2 GB, not exactly sure which.

It is especially important to me, when running a 'hybrid' storage system (i.e. an SSD *and* an HDD in the same system), to make sure that certain parts of the filesystem are not mounted on the SSD. Obviously, a lot of reads and writes to the SSD isn't great, and mine's only 64 GB, while the HDD is a half TB. I *think* my fstab looks somewhat like:

 /boot    sda1 (SSD)
 /        sda2 
 
 swap     sdb1 (HDD)
 /var     sdb2 
 /usr     sdb3 
 /home    sdb4 

 /tmp     tmpfs (RAM)
 /var/log tmpfs

Obviously, this isn't exactly what's in fstab on my laptop, but it's not currently on my lap, and I'm a bit too lazy to go look it up. I believe that's how the filesystem is set up though, or at least very similar.

Also, I might have combined /usr and /var into one partition on the HDD. I have done that in the past, and I'm not sure if I did so on the laptop...

Man, it's so friggin' *great* to say stuff like that, and know that the person on the other end of the conversation isn't going glass-eyed with incomprehension! There's literally nobody in my real-life social circle that knows how to talk tech!

McDoob
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