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- From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
- Subject: ANSWER/APOLOGY: (Was Re: how to set temp variable?
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:56:39 GMT
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- In <1993Jan7.034504.27098@sfu.ca> wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
-
- > Well, if I'm correct, linking /tmp to the new partition isn't gonna do
- >you alot of good. What you need to do is do a 'mount /dev/hd?? /tmp',
- >I think. Right after you've done a 'mkfs -c /dev/hd?? <blocks>'.
-
- > Guys, am I correct on this matter? Or did I screw up big time with
- >that answer?
-
- that seems to be correct. I however mounted a /dev/hd onto /usr/tmp, not
- /tmp. It seems to be working well; xv and cjpeg/djpeg can write their tmp
- files no problem. (I have a 5 meg partition mounted to /usr/tmp btw).
-
- Sorry for posting Unix general questions to this newsgroup. . . I will post
- future non-Linux related q's to comp.os.unix.questions (sic?).
-
-
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- Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
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