Partition war (was Re: [tlug] Using TAR)

[shimpei@example.com]

By the way, those of you planning to use VMWare should definitely
*not* use a ramdisk for /tmp.  VMWare likes to write humongous
files to /tmp for God knows what--swap, maybe.  I don't know
exactly what the requirement is, but even 250MB wasn't enough; I had
to sacrifice a 2GB partition to it in order to get it to shut up.
For everything except VMWare, though, I've rarely seen more than a few
megabytes in /tmp at a time.

Evil closed source, can't even hack it to use ~/tmp instead,
yada yada yada.

Shimpei.