/tmp and swap space
Olivier Smedts
olivier at gid0.org
Sat Jul 31 11:56:47 UTC 2010
2010/7/30 David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 09:23:37PM +0000, Benjamin Stuppin wrote:
>> ...
>> when using tmpfs for /tmp i'd probably add the "mode=1777" option, else you would mount /tmp with default options and without the sticky bit which could cause some problems.
>
> I have never needed to do that.
>
> d254(9.0-C)[1] uname -v
> FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #74 r210635: Fri Jul 30 07:34:44 PDT 2010 root at localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY
> d254(9.0-C)[2] ls -ldT /tmp
> drwxrwxrwt 10 root wheel 200 Jul 30 14:53:27 2010 /tmp
> d254(9.0-C)[3] grep !$ /etc/fstab
> grep /tmp /etc/fstab
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=2g 0 0
> d254(9.0-C)[4]
Because your underlying /tmp has proper permissions, but it's safer to use :
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,mode=1777 0 0
>
> Peace,
> david
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