Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!van-bc!fonorola!milkyway.com!not-for-mail From: mcr@metis.milkyway.com (Michael Richardson) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Disk full errors Date: 2 Oct 1995 20:03:22 -0400 Organization: Milkyway Networks Corporation, Ottawa, ON Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <44puka$cud@metis.milkyway.com> References: <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu> <44jv9i$a73@zuul.nmti.com> <44lbn5$23t@ionews.io.org> <44ph0p$hb4@aurora.cs.athabascau.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: metis.milkyway.com Keywords: inn news bsdi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:16358 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1109 In article <44ph0p$hb4@aurora.cs.athabascau.ca>, Ross Alexander <rwa@cs.athabascau.ca> wrote: >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. You get screwed if you are trying to do maintenance that involves having /var umounted and want to use vi. a) make sure that a /var/tmp exists "under" the /var mount. b) use loopback mounts so that /tmp is a real directory. -- :!mcr!: | <A HREF="http://www.milkyway.com/">Milkyway Networks Corporation</A> Michael Richardson | Makers of the Black Hole firewall NCF: aa714 || xx714 | +1 613 566-4574 ... mcr@milkyway.com Home: <A HREF="http://www.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca/People/Michael_Richardson/Bio.html">mcr@sandelman.ocunix.on.ca</A>. PGP key available.