From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 3:16:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD7237B423 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 03:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13Z9Zm-00037X-00; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:15:34 +0200 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:15:34 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Daniel Frazier , Dan Nelson , Jason W , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: excess baggage in / directory? Message-ID: <20000913121533.A11958@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <39BE4689.ACDE4482@magpage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:59:21PM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 2000-09-12 (16:59), Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > I agree. some may argue with this, but you might want to link /tmp > > to /usr/tmp to make sure /tmp wont ever fill up /. > > The only problem with this is that if you ever have to boot without > mounting any filesystems instead of root, you won't have a /tmp directory > so many things will fail (including most editors.) boot single mkdir /usr/tmp ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp Yes, you may have "hidden" temporary files below your /usr mount, but it's better than having things die terribly. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message