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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:31, Casey Harkins wrote:
> There was a discussion about this a while back. IIRC, lsb or fhs requires
> that /tmp be cleaned at boot and /var/tmp not be cleaned at boot. If the
> user wants to change that behavior, that's great, but I think we should
> default to this as a distro. Now, if we make /tmp tmpfs by default, then
> that might be sufficient to meet the cleaning at boot requirement. Having
> an init script do this (for those not using tmpfs) wouldn't hurt either.

future ISO's will default to a tmpfs /tmp of 256MB , if users wish otherwise 
it is a single line change in their fstab.
I think ISO's in the range 0.6 -> 0.9 had the tmpfs mounts commented out in 
the installed fstab.

Hamish

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