From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 31 9:45:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633DA37BD0F for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12b5Tt-000Ewj-00; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:45:13 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA22820; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:45:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:45:13 +0100 From: J McKitrick To: Alan Clegg Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: What is needed in /stand Message-ID: <20000331184513.A22797@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <38E4CACD.177A6202@math.missouri.edu> <20000331165915.A21909@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000331124119.B10520@laptop.firehouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000331124119.B10520@laptop.firehouse.net>; from abc@firehouse.net on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:41:19PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:41:19PM -0500, Alan Clegg wrote: > > 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 > symlinking it. > > Too many things use it (and depend on it) being there before /usr is > mounted (or if /usr is not available). Really? I was under the impression that this was OK, and actually standard procedure these days for simple installations. jm -- -------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org "You're the guy from the Hambuger Train, right?" -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message