From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 24 14:34:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D1237B404 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:34:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0162.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.162] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16TsRz-0004Xt-00; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:34:32 -0800 Message-ID: <3C508BEF.DA84A646@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:34:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Thompson Cc: Brad Knowles , chip , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was"Re: ... RedHat ...")") References: <20020124102557.R42409-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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