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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:13:08 -0000
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        roland.mathieu@free.fr (roland Mathieu)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A question about /tmp
Message-ID:  <200408091402.i79E2U124048@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040809083250.GA12445@lycurgue.localnet> from "roland Mathieu" at Aug 09, 2004 10:32:50 AM

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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I want to install FreeBSD with a small root partition. It's
> possible to use a different partition for /tmp, but /tmp can also be a
> symbolic link pointing, for example, /var/tmp. Is it a good idea ? If not
> what sort of problem will I encounter ?

Your only problem is that you might need to have /tmp mounted and
available when, for some reason you cannot or do not want to have /var
mounted.    Probably a rare circumstance, but...

////jerry

> 
> thanks,
> roland.
>    



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