From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 22 09:31:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E2A16A406 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:31:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver-mailinglist@charter.net) Received: from mxsf35.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf35.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AF543D45 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:31:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oliver-mailinglist@charter.net) Received: from mxip21a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip21a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.151]) by mxsf35.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k3M9VdMl014965 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:31:39 -0400 Received: from 24-205-236-185.dhcp.snlo.ca.charter.com (HELO linux.linux) ([24.205.236.185]) by mxip21a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2006 05:31:39 -0400 From: Oliver Iberien To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:31:38 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604220231.38846.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> Subject: Putting /tmp on a separate volume? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:31:41 -0000 I followed the automatic suggestions for slices at install time and now have a /tmp folder of 500M. This fills up at odd times and I was hoping to install a second drive and mount a section of it as /tmp. So far I managed to get a second drive partitioned. I replaced the slice in /etc/fstab for /tmp with one of the new partitions (in this case, ad1s1c). KDE would not start because it did not have the permissions for /tmp any more, so I put the following entries in /etc/devfs.conf: own /dev/ad1s1c root:wheel perm /dev/ad1s1c 0777 own /tmp root:wheel perm /tmp 0777 That didn't work. I initially tried with 0666 but that failed as well. The 0777 did not seem like a good long-term solution anyway. So... Is what I am doing possible? And what is the intelligent way to go about it? Thanks, Oliver