Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Partition Sizing | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:20:25 -0700 | From | Zack Weinberg <> |
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Richard Gooch writes: > 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?
I don't see any advantage of that over linking /tmp to /var/tmp. The only issue with not having /tmp on the root filesystem is if it's needed before the rest of the filesystems are mounted, and you'd have the same problem with a separate /tmp or a symlink.
> > 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?
Not for /dev - for the frequently modified files in /etc, like /etc/shadow (assuming you make people change passwords regularly...)
zw
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