Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 1999 01:21:51 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Partition Sizing |
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Hi Richard, Zack.
>>>> 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.
> OK, fair enough. I had originally read it as "/tmp -> /var/tmp > is better than mount /tmp". I guess you weren't saying that.
> I personally prefer a separate /tmp so that dumb users don't > accidentally fill up /var (/var/spool, /var/log and so on).
Personally, I prefer to have /tmp as a separate partition, with both /usr/tmp and /var/tmp as symlinks to it. That also has the advantage that /tmp is valid before the /tmp partition is mounted, so can be used right from boot-up, which it can't if one does that the other way round...
Best wishes from Riley.
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