putting "/tmp" to memory

[Tim]

Tim:
>> If you burn DVDs, you need to be able to set the software to use
>> somewhere other than /tmp to create its temporary files.  Else,
>> you're going to need at least 5 gigs of spare RAM for your
>> tmpfs /tmp, to hold an entire DVD ISO.

Bruno Wolff III:
> tmpfs can use swap space when needed, so you could set up say a 10 GB
> swap partition to allow you to handle cases where you need a lot of
> temp space.

It's a long time since I tried using tmpfs for /tmp, but I did have a
big swap partition, and I'd get out of disc space errors if I tried to
create a DVD.

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