[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#722571: Bug#722571: chromium: Writes short-lived temp files to /var/tmp instead of /tmp

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

On 12/09/2013 14:11, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Chromium writes several short-lived files to /var/tmp, but those
> should be written to /tmp. Users with SSDs often mount a tmpfs on
> /tmp to reduce writes to the SSD. But /var/tmp cannot be a tmpfs,
> as it needs to be preserved across reboots. Writing those short-lived
> files to /var/tmp thus causes unnecessary writes to the SSD.


You can set it  in /etc/chromium/default :

CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--password-store=detect --disk-cache-dir=/tmp"


Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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