Cleaning /tmp

[Tim]

On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 19:36 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> One option is tmpfs. Put something like this in /etc/fstab:
> none                    /tmp                    tmpfs   nodev,noexec 0 0
> and everything in /tmp will be deleted whenever the system is rebooted
> or powered down (unless you hibernate).
>  
> If you have plenty of memory, files in /tmp might never actually reach
> disk, which can improve performance on some tasks.

But bear in mind that if you don't have plenty of memory, and you need
to create large temporary files, you can have a problem.

e.g. Burning discs that need to create the entire iso image file in
the /tmp space.

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