[ltp] how to silence the hard drive

[Andrew Mason]

Doesn't /tmp get used for hibernate ? If so wouldn't this break
hibernate functionality?

On 7/6/09, Jens Rutschmann <Jens.Rutschmann@gmx.info> wrote:
> Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DSM CD) schrieb am 06.07.2009 12:25:
>> Volker Krueger wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Now, i discovered the following possible entries for /etc/fstab:
>>>
>>> tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
>>> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
>>> tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
>>>
>>> this generates a ram-disk for each mounted tmpfs, i.e., all temporary
>>> stuff goes into the laptop's memory so that the HD is not woken up
>>> anymore.
>>>
>> /tmp in RAM is a good idea (at least if you have enough RAM :)
>>
>> /var/tmp is for "Temporary files preserved between system reboots" =>
>> maybe shouldn't go to RAM, see
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE
>
> I have /tmp mounted on tmpfs and /var/tmp symlinked to it for two or three
> years
> now, running KDE 3.5 on Gentoo almost every day. I did not have any problems
> so
> far that I would associate with /var/tmp using tmpfs. YMMV
>
> Didn't know about the fact that /var/tmp should preserve between reboots :-)
>
> Also one could combine the preservation with tmpfs by copying the contents
> to
> the harddisk and vice versa on startup / shutdown using inits scripts.
> That's what I would do if I had the Firefox cache in tmpfs.
>
> Best regards,
> Jens
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