Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:32:53 +0100 From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")") Message-ID: <20020124183253.GB73895@pc5.abc> In-Reply-To: <p0510122eb875d9456cf4@[10.0.1.3]> References: <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <p0510122eb875d9456cf4@[10.0.1.3]>
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* On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:35:48PM +0100, * Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote: > At 10:31 PM -0800 2002/01/23, chip wrote: > > When all's said and done, I symlink /tmp to > > /usr/tmp and /var to /usr/var. > > This has also been discussed previously. However, I believe > that there is much more agreement that symlinking /tmp to anywhere > not on the root filesystem is a really, really bad idea -- what > happens during boot if the system need to write something to /tmp, > but /tmp is a symlink to a filesystem that hasn't been mounted yet? You can create a /usr/tmp directory residing on the / filesystem, can't you? Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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