From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 24 14:55:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4347537B42C for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0OMtaW45530; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:55:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:55:36 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: ryan@catalyst.sasknow.net To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was"Re: ... RedHat ...")") In-Reply-To: <3C508BEF.DA84A646@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020124164953.R43433-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Terry... Maybe you missed the obvious satire in my post? :-) Ah well, maybe it's not up to bikeshed standards, but at least I had a good chuckle writing it this morning. :-) - Ryan Terry Lambert wrote to Ryan Thompson: > 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 > -- Ryan Thompson 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