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From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
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Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")")
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* On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:35:48PM +0100,
* Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote:
> At 10:31 PM -0800 2002/01/23, chip wrote:
> >                             When all's said and done, I symlink /tmp to
> > /usr/tmp and /var to /usr/var.
> 
> 	This has also been discussed previously.  However, I believe 
> that there is much more agreement that symlinking /tmp to anywhere 
> not on the root filesystem is a really, really bad idea -- 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?

You can create a /usr/tmp directory residing on the / filesystem,
can't you?

Nicolas

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