use /var/tmp not /tmp

[glensc]

hi

in case of systems where /tmp is on tmpfs, especially systemd installs (afaik it's systemd default to have /tmp on tmpfs), building slax would take out ram which it would need for xz instead.

you should use /var/tmp for such puporses, i.e /var/tmp is supposed to be temp dir not on ramfs. there was some blog or documentation too about this topic (i don't even know what to search to reach it :)), but it stated that most cd burning tools have already been changed to use /var/tmp for their temporary isos

also, interestingly, www.linux-live.org suggests to mail you, but i can't find mail address anywhere :D

[Tomas-M]

Since /tmp is a general purpose temporary folder, mounting tmpfs over it is a problem of the particular distro. I think the best will be probably to make that target directory configurable in .config, but at the moment I fail to see any reason why I should fix a problem introduced by someone else (systemd), sorry for that.

[Tomas-M]

BTW the phrase "mail me" at linux-live.org is actually a link to contact form :)

[glensc]

found the link: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs#Scope

you may want to reconsider it based how wide tmpfs on /tmp is going to be considering major distros fedora and unbuntu follow and accept it :(

[Tomas-M]

I've added a warning to README. Overmounting /tmp by tmpfs is a crazy idea which I am not willing to take into consideration :)

[glensc]

i looked, my normal operations use only few files there, so i'm taking that risk to save my SSD disk life with tmpfs mount on /tmp :)

$ l /tmp/
total 0
drwxrwxrwt 2 glen glen 860 märts 24 12:12 at-spi2/
drwx------ 2 glen glen 120 märts 23 23:34 keyring-qJbnOc/
drwx------ 2 glen glen 100 märts 24 01:01 pulse-9xWnhNDz625F/
drwx------ 2 root root  40 märts 23 23:34 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/
drwx------ 2 glen glen  60 märts 23 23:34 ssh-WZnTCgwt1863/