From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 3:38:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8B037B68D for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 03:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12c4Ex-000Ooa-00; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:37:51 +0200 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:37:51 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Brad Knowles Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Coleman Kane , Jeff Fisher , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is needed in /stand Message-ID: <20000403123751.B94441@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000401004437.A6904@evil.2y.net> <20000401135701.A11341@evil.2y.net> <38E686A2.BC52FBA3@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun 2000-04-02 (21:16), Brad Knowles wrote: > At 5:30 PM -0600 2000/4/1, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > What was the experience that taught you this lesson? (I have always > > done this.) > > Processes that need to make use of /tmp during the boot process, > but before /usr is mounted will bomb out. This may keep the system > from booting, etc.... As has been previously mentioned, a "dummy" /usr/tmp on the root filesystem usually handles this. Not that I'm making any comment about the various merits of each option. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message