Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 16:33:23 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: symlinking /tmp: was: size of root (was Re: Debugging Kernel....) Message-ID: <20000504163323.A20746@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <3911887E.C6D08C31@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:26:06AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005041603510.256-100000@dlanor.evertsen.nl> <3911887E.C6D08C31@math.missouri.edu>
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On Thu 2000-05-04 (09:26), Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > 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)? ed, camcontrol, disklabel, ldconfig, restore. I wouldn't worry about them creating massive files, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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