From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 9 15: 9: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E91C37B7DD for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:08:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13445; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:09:02 -0800 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id PAA02590; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:11:18 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:11:18 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: Andrey Sverdlichenko , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning In-Reply-To: <200003091815.e29IF0q76492@orthanc.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "Andrey" == Andrey Sverdlichenko 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. Brian Beattie | This email was produced using professional quality, beattie@aracnet.com | standards based software. Users of Microsoft beattie@aracnet.com | products or other substandard software should www.aracnet.com/~beattie | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message