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Here is my pc specs

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Based on this tutorial I made following changeds to fstab

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=0755 0 0 
tmpfs /var/log/apt tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0

Now I got some question:

  1. Will it increase my system's performance?
  2. How safe it is for my pc?
  3. May some apps like dvd burning tool crash because of big temp space requirement? (My SWAP area is 8 gb as RAM)

Thx in advance for wasting your time and trying to help

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    What are you trying to optimize? Is your laptop storage slow at the moment? Are you using an SSD? If so, trying to prevent wear and did you enable TRIM for example? Really... we need so much more information. Just running "because" is a big no-no for what I see in that "tutorial".
    – gertvdijk
    Jan 10, 2013 at 0:35

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No, don't run this.

Moving /var/log onto ephemeral storage is very likely to get you into basic trouble. You'll lose all log files across reboots, including the directories packages are expected to be there. If for example /var/log/cups/ does not exists, you'll probably first have to re-create the directory before you can print anything and Cups can't even burp the errors in the meantime...

/var/log/apt on another tmpfs inside one? This does not make sense.

About /var/tmp and /tmp, I find this a nice explanation:

Since in most of the default installations the /tmp folder will be cleaned in every reboot. This is where /var/tmp comes in to play. Here, applications can expect their data to be preserved between reboots. In other words, data stored here is more persistent than /tmp.

So, stuff will probably break. Applications rely on the persistence of /var/tmp.

Common sense

Don't just do stuff people or blog posters recommend you to do.

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  • Thx for anwer. I upvoted your answer, but there was nothing with my question to downvote.
    – Tural Ali
    Jan 10, 2013 at 0:51
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    @TuralTeyyubogluAliyev Yes, there is. 1) Not enough information on what you're trying to accomplish. 2) Dumping a list of commands from a random website, without any research effort. 3) two out of three questions can only be answered by yourself (too many factors into play).
    – gertvdijk
    Jan 10, 2013 at 0:57

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