From: Eli Dart <dartnersc.gov>
Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp
Date: Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:18:09PM -0700

> In reply to Craig Cowen <craigallmaui.com> :
> > Solaris mounts it's swap on /tmp while FBSD does not make this available.
> > Why not use the Solaris way of doing things?
>
> I don't know why FreeBSD doesn't do this (in other words, if this was
> a deliberate decision, I don't know what points were debated in
> coming to a decision), but I could see a problem where filling /tmp
> could run you out of swap.

Mount /tmp then as MFS with a limited size. Works nicely, for me.

This is not very different from having to make a special partition of
fixed size just to keep /tmp from filling /. There is an important
difference, though. The size of the MFS /tmp is easy to change by
modifying /etc/fstab it's a much better way to use this than create a
fixed partition (which is admittedly much harder to resize).

-giorgos

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