Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:34:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chip <chip@wiegand.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was"Re: ... RedHat ...")") Message-ID: <3C508BEF.DA84A646@mindspring.com> References: <20020124102557.R42409-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net>
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Ryan Thompson wrote: > 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. boot -s mkdir /var/tmp No longer a problem: if /var isn't mounted, it will use a /tmp on /. The real issue is that the / FS should be mounted read-only, if we were doing things correctly. Personally, I've only rarely needed /tmp (you will not believe the hacks to shell scripts in tape install images that I have done using dd with byte counts as if it were "sed", in order to get Ultrix to install on disks it didn't want to install on). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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