Comment 3 for bug 524196

I also put /tmp on its own partition as I do with /home and several other
important trees.

On Saturday 13 March 2010 04:31:23 am rennradler wrote:
> I can confirm this behaviour on Kubuntu 9.10 amd64 release . I have
> TMPTIME=0 in /etc/default/rcS. But df gives this after reboot:
>
> # df -h
> Dateisystem Größe Benut Verf Ben% Eingehängt auf
> /dev/sda3 46G 6,5G 38G 15% /
> /dev/sda1 92G 68G 20G 78% /tmp
> /dev/sda4 543G 113G 403G 22% /home
>
> 68G in /tmp!
>
> In my case /tmp is mounted as seperate file system and not pat of the
> root file system. /dev/sda1 is a spare partition for testing new Ubuntu
> installations or distribution upgrades. Since there is nothing to be
> tested at the moment I thought why not using it as /tmp for my
> production instalation.
>
> Now, when I don't mount /dev/sda1 on /tmp, i.e. /tmp is part of the root
> file systen everythink works fine and /tmp is cleaned up after reboot.
>
> It would be interesting to hear about your stetup.
>
> I suspect it is a bug in mountall which is actually performing the
> cleaning job during bootup.
>

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