Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

Posted Jun 4, 2024 13:41 UTC (Tue) by rknight (subscriber, #26792)
In reply to: Debian's /tmpest in a teapot by Klaasjan
Parent article: Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

See https://forum.doozan.com/list.php?2 for Debian support on different Marvell SOC based devices which include many NAS servers some of which only have 64MB or 128MB of RAM.

Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

Posted Jun 4, 2024 19:39 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

If they have such a small disk, you definitely should NOT use it for large temporary files, because it will wear out the flash quickly.

Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

Posted Jun 6, 2024 10:46 UTC (Thu) by aragilar (subscriber, #122569) [Link]

128MB is RAM, the rootfs (which would probably include /tmp) is usually on USB-attached storage (which would number in the 10s of GB at least).