/tmp on tmpfs (was: Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-04-02))

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 05:10 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Actually I think this is a good feature, but ...
> 
> I'm unsure about whether this makes sense for new installs or not, but I 
> feel my objection in
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/tmp-on-tmpfs was not taken into 
> account at all. :-/ Forcing this change on upgrades will leave users with 
> wasted disk space they cannot easily reclaim. (For us technical users, 
> reclaiming it will be complicated, for non-technical users, it will be 
> impossible.)

Can't this be easily resolved by renaming /tmp ->/old-tmp at upgrade
time ?

Simo.

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