[Bug 882] New: Extraneous tmpfs mounts of /tmp and /media/ram in fstab

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Tue Sep 18 19:05:18 CEST 2007


http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=882

           Summary: Extraneous tmpfs mounts of /tmp and /media/ram in fstab
           Product: OpenMoko
           Version: 2007.2
          Platform: Neo1973
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P3
         Component: sysinit
        AssignedTo: buglog at lists.openmoko.org
        ReportedBy: mwester at dls.net
                CC: buglog at lists.openmoko.org


The /etc/fstab file explicitly mounts /tmp as well as /media/ram as filesystems
of type tmpfs.  This conflicts with the configuration of the "volatiles"
mechanism which redirects  (among others) /tmp to be a symbolic link into
/var/volatile (which is a tmpfs filesystem).  (This also results in an error
message printed at boot time -- "Device or resource busy" -- and a strange entry
 symbolic link from /tmp/tmp->/var/tmp).

Additionally, there is no need for /media/ram to be mounted as a tmpfs
filesystem, as applications and users should use a directory in /var/volatiles
instead.

The solution is to remove the lines for /tmp and /media/ram from the fstab.

[Note that as an alternative, if it is deemed desirable that we have two tmpfs
mounts for temporary data, then the /etc/default/volatiles configuration should
be adjusted to remove the reference to /tmp.]



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