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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.oz.au!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!atha!rwa From: rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Disk full errors Date: 2 Oct 1995 20:11:05 GMT Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 30 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <44ph0p$hb4@aurora.cs.athabascau.ca> References: <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu> <44jv9i$a73@zuul.nmti.com> <44lbn5$23t@ionews.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: aupair.cs.athabascau.ca Keywords: inn news bsdi X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #10 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:16195 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1026 geoffred@io.org (Geoff Davidson) writes: >peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>Make "/tmp" a symlink to "/var/tmp" or something like that, so long as >>you have plenty of space for scratch files there... > At first, I was going to skip this, but foolishly changed my >mind... > ...is there nothing at boot time that tries to write to /tmp? >if so...what if /var is mounted on a different partition? From the look of the df output, the machine in question is a BSD derivative platform. (And, now that I think of it, the symlink idea won't fly if it isn't, modulo SysVr4 :). The first thing any sane /etc/rc does is to scrub and then mount all local filesystems (although SunOS 4.x, as per usual, does things differently) so if /var is local, it will get mounted very early in the boot sequence, before anything tries to scribble into it. /tmp's a special case anyhow, because about the second thing that happens is that /tmp gets cleaned up. We run /tmp as a link to /var/tmp on several boxes here and it's generally safe. regards, Ross -- Ross Alexander, ve6pdq -- (403) 675 6311 -- rwa@cs.athabascau.ca