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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:19:00 +0100
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")")
Message-ID:  <20020125171900.GA5140@pc5.abc>
In-Reply-To: <p0510123db8764793f13d@[10.0.1.3]>
References:  <20020124183253.GB73895@pc5.abc> <p0510123db8764793f13d@[10.0.1.3]>

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* On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:22:48AM +0100,
* Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote:
> At 7:32 PM +0100 2002/01/24, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> 
> > You can create a /usr/tmp directory residing on the / filesystem,
> > can't you?
> 
> 	You could, but my experience is that this is how extremely 
> large amounts of disk space can go quietly missing, without anyone 
> ever managing to figure out where it went.  Been there, done that.

OK, you're right, but I didn't encounter this problem, and I think my
/data/tmp on the / filesystem is still empty.

Nicolas

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