From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 31 10:50:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tinc-org.com (tinc-org.com [64.6.65.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6756437BA14 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@jeffenstein.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tinc-org.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id MAA95415 Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:50:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff@jeffenstein.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by localhost.jeffnet (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA28835 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:49:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff@jeffenstein.org) Received: from frogger.jeffnet(192.168.243.1), claiming to be "frogger-int" via SMTP by frogger.jeffnet, id smtpdq28830; Fri Mar 31 12:49:12 2000 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:49:12 -0600 (CST) From: Jeff Fisher X-Sender: jeff@localhost To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is needed in /stand In-Reply-To: <20000331124119.B10520@laptop.firehouse.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Alan Clegg wrote: > Out of the ether, J McKitrick spewed forth the following bitstream: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:57:01AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > Now I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, I am finding that I am > > > getting less and less room in the root mount point / . > > > (I gave it 32M). > > > > Stupid question: have you symlinked /var and /tmp to /usr? > > /tmp should not be linked anywhere off of the root file system. > > I'd recommend mounting an MFS or another filesystem on it, but not > symlinking it. > > Too many things use it (and depend on it) being there before /usr is > mounted (or if /usr is not available). > If it's needed, you could create the /usr/tmp directory on the root partition, so it will be there before /usr is mounted. Hopefully it won't get alot of files that transparently fill up the root. -- jeff@jeffenstein.org http://www.jeffenstein.org Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message