SUMMARY: What to do about /tmp file system when it's not part of swap?

From: NetComrade (netcomrade@bookexchange.net)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 14:46:10 EST


It was confirmed that this configuration is valid.

However, we do use /tmp heavily, and I changed it to tmpfs as was
suggested

fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0s3 - - swap - no -
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s0 / ufs 1 no
-
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s6 /usr ufs 1 no
-
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s1 /var ufs 1 no
-
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0s5 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s5 /opt ufs 2
yes
-

thanks!
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, NetComrade wrote:

> We accidentally made /tmp a file system when we setup the box.
>
> What would you advise to do about it? Just remove from vfstab?
> The system came up with swap using the remainder of the disk:
>
> /dev/dsk/c5t0d0s0 1949551 247433 1643632 14% /
> /dev/dsk/c5t0d0s6 4038702 918459 3079856 23% /usr
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
> /dev/dsk/c5t0d0s1 4133838 105715 3986785 3% /var
> swap 13932112 24 13932088 1% /var/run
> /dev/dsk/c5t0d0s5 6053358 51817 5941008 1% /opt
> /dev/dsk/c5t0d0s3 33038277 430437 32277458 2% /tmp
>
> Would like to figure out what's best before encapsulating the disk (we are
> running an old version of vxvm that requires it)
>
> Thanks!
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