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Date:      Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:08:06 -0500
From:      Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
To:        Scott Myron <zamy27@hsonline.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: will this idea work?
Message-ID:  <35475066.BEEAA024@nconnect.net>
References:  <3546A165.728C0BFA@hsonline.net>

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Scott Myron wrote:
> 
> ok, now my / filesystem is "really" small it's about 79% full with about
> 6 megs left. now the only thing that really uses that filesystem now is
> the /tmp. so my idea is to rm -r /tmp and then mkdir /usr/tmp then ln -s
> /usr/tmp tmp (I think that's how to you do it) but if I create a
> symbolic link to /usr/tmp in my / filesystem. will that work? this way
> my tmp will have around 588 megs to do it's job. because sometimes when
> I try to "make install" stuff it gives me errors how my / filesystem is
> full.. well it's just an idea. thanks.

This is exactly what I do with /tmp.  I also set the sticky bit.


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