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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:41:19 -0500
From:      Alan Clegg <abc@firehouse.net>
To:        J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: What is needed in /stand
Message-ID:  <20000331124119.B10520@laptop.firehouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000331165915.A21909@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 04:59:15PM %2B0100
References:  <38E4CACD.177A6202@math.missouri.edu> <20000331165915.A21909@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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Out of the ether, J McKitrick spewed forth the following bitstream:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:57:01AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > Now I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, I am finding that I am
> > getting less and less room in the root mount point / .
> > (I gave it 32M).
>=20
> Stupid question: have you symlinked /var and /tmp to /usr?

/tmp should not be linked anywhere off of the root file system.

I'd recommend mounting an MFS or another filesystem on it, but not=20
symlinking it.

Too many things use it (and depend on it) being there before /usr is
mounted (or if /usr is not available).

AlanC
--=20
                                      \             Alan B. Clegg
         Just because I can            \          abc@firehouse.net
        does not mean I will.           \     <http://www.firehouse.net/>;
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