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From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
Date: Mon Sep 3 16:26:30 2007
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Even easier than cleaning up /tmp manually on reboot is to just mount
> it as a tmpfs anyway, so it's only held in RAM (backed by swap, of
> course, should it be necessary):

A note to GNOME users: don't try this. Due to the way programs like 
Nautilus handle temporary files, you'll quickly run out of memory and 
swap space when you try to, for example, burn a DVD.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/18661

-Brian

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