Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:49:18 -0800 From: chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was"Re: ... RedHat ...")") Message-ID: <200201241749909.SM01304@there> In-Reply-To: <20020124164953.R43433-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> References: <20020124164953.R43433-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net>
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On Thursday 24 January 2002 02:55 pm, Ryan Thompson banged out on the key= s: > 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 I had a good chuckle reading it.=20 :-) Regards, Chip > 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
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