site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com -Steve _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... At 2:58 PM +0200 10/11/06, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 11 okt 2006, at 14:52, Steve Sisak wrote: It's somewhat annoying to need 4GB free on the root volume in order to burn a DVD. This is no longer needed as of Mac OS X 10.4 Point taken, but I was using that as a particularly egregious example of a general problem -- there's plenty of random unix code that will use gobs of space on /tmp (CUPS comes to mind). The general case is being able to specify a scratch (as opposed to swap) volume would be useful -- this need not be a dedicated partition: on my laptop it would be the big data partition. The ideas is to set things up so that "dumb" applications use the right location by redirecting common well known directories there (VM swap, /tmp, /Library/Caches, etc.) Doing this correctly is slightly tricky (especially on a running system), so it would best be handled by the system as a supported facility. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com