Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:59:54 +1000 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: Partition Sizing |
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Zack Weinberg writes: > In addition, you should symlink /tmp to /var/tmp and audit your rc > scripts to make sure they don't need /tmp before /var is mounted. > All modern distros I've tried get this right.
Why not just have /tmp a separate FS?
> It would be nice to be able to mount / ro and nosuid, but you can't > do that because there tend to be a few suid executables in /bin, you > frequently need to modify files in /etc, and login/logout needs to > modify permissions on /dev nodes. devfs plus lots of symlinks may > be able to correct this.
You don't need any symlinks with the standard devfs configuration (devfs mounted on /dev). What makes you think you do?
Regards,
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