Bug#692559: RAMTMP is missing too

Dmitry Bogatov KAction at debian.org
Thu Jan 3 04:12:50 GMT 2019


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[2018-12-31 08:54] Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de>
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> 
> > Regarding RAMTMP, I am not sure whether it is actually useful. Really,
> > if you want /tmp in tmpfs, just add entry into /etc/fstab. There
> > should be one, and only one oblivious way to do it.
> 
> Normally, yes, but it’s there now, so please don’t remove it,
> that would change existing systems to the worse.
> 
> I had been using the variable because the verbiage in the
> /etc/default/* files indicated that it was “the Debian way”
> now to do things like mounting /tmp there.

No, no, I do not plan to remove it. Probably, at least comment in
/etc/default/tmpfs regarding it should be added.




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