Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:16:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How stable is soft updates? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904081511490.353-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904090007040.16986-100000@chain.freebsd.os.org.za>
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > Around Wednesday, "jfesler@gigo.com" wrote : > > > 3: How do we tunefs "/" ? > > Why would you want to ? > > IMO, a designed system has a / partition that is never written to. > The only possible thing that is possibly written to during the > normal course of events is /tmp. Yup. Changing passwords is one of the few things that needs to happen there. Otherwise - well, I run my server with / (and /usr, for that matter) mounted r/o with no problems. I may move it to a CD-RW, if 3.2-RELEASE can read them on this hardware (2.2.8 could; 3.1-RELEASE couldn't). > Although some people freak at making /tmp a mount point, I do, and haven't > had any problems. I've been mounting /tmp on Unix systems for 15 years, with nary a whimper. Recommended. > If you don't like that, you can make it a MFS partition. Also good, unless you have users who dump large scratch files in /tmp. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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