From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 4 7:25:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6846E37B640 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 07:25:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000504142531.OEJT3640.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 07:25:31 -0700 Message-ID: <3911887E.C6D08C31@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:26:06 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: symlinking /tmp: was: size of root (was Re: Debugging Kernel....) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald Klop wrote: > > As far as I know you can't change the size of filesystems in freebsd. (Of > course it's possible, but I don't know the tool to do it.) But you can > place /tmp on a different filesystem (mount it, not a symlink, because you > will not have a tmp when booting single user otherwise.) Because this is > the only directory in the root partition which is written on, it's the > only one which may give problems. > I have been symlinking /tmp to /usr/tmp for quite a while (I got the idea from the book "The Complete FreeBSD"). It has never caused me problems. But now I can see the potential for problems. What programs are there in /bin or /sbin that use /tmp that could cause problems in single user mode (if one chooses not to mount /usr)? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message