Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:16:19 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chip <chip@wiegand.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")") Message-ID: <20020124102557.R42409-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <p0510122eb875d9456cf4@[10.0.1.3]>
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Brad Knowles wrote to chip: [...] > what happens during boot if the system need to write something to > /tmp, but /tmp is a symlink to a filesystem that hasn't been mounted > yet? Dear Mr. Knowles, We symlink /tmp to /var/tmp on all of our servers, so my company is obviously very interested in knowing if this represents a potential problem, in the event that we need to reboot any of our machines before they die of natural causes. We would appreciate your expertise. Could you grep through the rc scripts and tell us if /tmp is ever accessed before the local filesystems are mounted? Our technical staff is currently in rehab for pipe abuse, and I can't remember for the life of me how to use this cryptic ``more'' command, let alone where I can find ``/etc/rc''. Please take your time. You wouldn't want to reply before thinking it through. Please reply ASAP, because I'm going to need to know, by Monday afternoon latest, if I need to submit a proposal, here, to immediately rebuild our servers with larger / partitions and discontinue use of the /var/tmp symlink, if you can confirm this to be a problem on boot. Please include your contact information so your findings can be properly cited in my internal proposal. I am sure your response holds the acute attention of this list, as well. Please advise. Yours most sincerely, - Ryan Thompson -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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