Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:11:18 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: Andrey Sverdlichenko <blaze@infosec.ru>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003091509240.1023-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200003091815.e29IF0q76492@orthanc.ab.ca>
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrey" == Andrey Sverdlichenko <blaze@infosec.ru> writes:
>
> >> /tmp softlink to /var/tmp (because having two tmp's is stupid)
>
> Andrey> What if /var can't be mounted after crash? /tmp should be
> Andrey> on root filesystem.
>
> Just create an underlying /var/tmp on the root filesystem so /tmp
> always has a directory to point to.
>
which should probably be a symlink to a directory that is visable while
/var is mounted, to make it easier to find and lost blocks and inodes, of
be very careful when /var is not mounted.
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