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From: chip <chip@wiegand.org>
To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>,
	Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was"Re:  ... RedHat ...")")
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:49:18 -0800
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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

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