Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:55:36 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was"Re: ... RedHat ...")") Message-ID: <20020124164953.R43433-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <3C508BEF.DA84A646@mindspring.com>
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Terry... Maybe you missed the obvious satire in my post? :-) Ah well, maybe it's not up to bikeshed standards, but at least I had a good chuckle writing it this morning. :-) - Ryan Terry Lambert wrote to Ryan Thompson: > Ryan Thompson wrote: > > We symlink /tmp to /var/tmp on all of our servers, so my company is > > obviously very interested in knowing if this represents a potential > > problem, in the event that we need to reboot any of our machines > > before they die of natural causes. > > boot -s > > mkdir /var/tmp > > No longer a problem: if /var isn't mounted, it will use a /tmp > on /. > > The real issue is that the / FS should be mounted read-only, > if we were doing things correctly. > > Personally, I've only rarely needed /tmp (you will not believe > the hacks to shell scripts in tape install images that I have > done using dd with byte counts as if it were "sed", in order > to get Ultrix to install on disks it didn't want to install on). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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