[PLUG] (Re)-Partitioning

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Sat Dec 27 20:02:25 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 19:44, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> Ditto with /var/run. If you've got the memory, it's really cool to
> have a tmpfs directory for doing your compiling. It can speed up
> builds fairly substantially.

/var/run might not be such a good option, although I admit that I
haven't tried it.  Some subsystems will want a subdirectory with
appropriate ownership and not create them automatically.  I note that
several packages own these sub-directories, which probably makes them a
bad option for tmpfs.

Wil
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