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- From: oklein@smallo.bo.open.de (Olaf Klein)
- Subject: Re: Linking /tmp off of root file system
- Organization: smallo.bo.open.de Fido-SubNet-Gate : 2:245/5800.12
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 19:24:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep03.192448.2863@smallo.bo.open.de>
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- walder@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (John Walder) writes:
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- > Our root file system is nearly full. Thus it overflows periodically since
- > vi and mail have /tmp hardcoded in them for creating temporary files.
- > What problems might arise if we did the following?
- > mv tmp tmp.save
- > ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp
- > One problem I foresee is that /usr is not mounted in single user mode.
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- That can be overridden, when makeing an own partition for the /tmp
- Directory and mounting it when going multiuser.
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- Bye, Olaf
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- Olaf Klein smallo.bo.open.de 2:245/5800.12
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