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From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
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Cc: Caleb Stein <caleb.stein@me.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
	Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
Subject: Re: Clean up / filesystem
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Mike Clarke
<jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 October 2010, Arthur Chance wrote:
>
>> Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuck in /tmp
>> that are needed. In single user mode it should be safe, and it
>> probably is when simply running on the console.
>>
>> As a long term solution, if you wish to clear /tmp every reboot add
>> clear_tmp_enable=3D"YES"=C2=A0=C2=A0# Clear /tmp at startup.
>> to your /etc/rc.conf
>

You may also want to consider changing /tmp to be a TMPFS file system

add the line
tmpfs		/tmp	tmpfs	rw,mode=3D01777	0	0

to /etc/fstab (and remove any other /tmp lines).

A warning will come saying that it is highly experimental - but I've
been running with it for a while now without any issues.

--=20
Eitan Adler