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In-Reply-To: <19970413225633.GJ54491@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Apr 13, 97 10:56:33 pm"
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> As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> 
> > > > But you remember that shell here documents use (hidden) tempfiles,
> > > > thus require a writable /tmp?
> > > 
> > > Heh heh, I just knew there was a fly in the ointment here somewhere! ;-)
> > > 
> > 
> > 	mfs, mfs ,mfs 
> 
> That's not an universal solution you can count on inside /etc/rc.
> Using MFS or not using it is a policy decision.  I've got machines
> where i wanna make sure that /tmp is preserved across reboots.  Yes, i
> know that this is not the common policy, but establishing a script
> that would effectively prevent /tmp being a real disk filesystem would
> take away part of the freedom the local admin otherwise has.
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

mount -t mfs /dev/swap /rc_tmp
rc stuff
umount /rc_tmp

Cheers,
Julian.