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Date:      Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:35:35 +0000
From:      four.harrisons@googlemail.com
To:        jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk
Cc:        caleb.stein@me.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@qeng-ho.org
Subject:   Re: Clean up / filesystem
Message-ID:  <4cb2ce19.2230cc0a.3a8b.6725@mx.google.com>

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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Mike Clarke=0D=0A<jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.=
co.uk> wrote:=0D=0A> On Saturday 09 October 2010, Arthur Chance wrote:=0D=
=0A>=0D=0A>> Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuc=
k in /tmp=0D=0A>> that are needed. In single user mode it should be safe,=
 and it=0D=0A>> probably is when simply running on the console.=0D=0A>>=0D=
=0A>> As a long term solution, if you wish to clear /tmp every reboot add=
=0D=0A>>  clear_tmp_enable=3D"YES"=C2=A0=C2=A0#  Clear /tmp at startup.=0D=
=0A>> to your /etc/rc.conf=0D=0A>=0D=0A=0D=0AYou may also want to conside=
r changing /tmp to be a TMPFS file system=0D=0A=0D=0Aadd the line=0D=0Atm=
pfs=09=09/tmp=09tmpfs=09rw,mode=3D01777=090=090=0D=0A=0D=0Ato /etc/fstab =
(and remove any other /tmp lines).=0D=0A=0D=0AA warning will come saying =
that it is highly experimental - but I've=0D=0Abeen running with it for a=
 while now without any issues.=0D=0A=0D=0A--=20=0D=0AEitan Adler=0D=0A___=
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