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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Disk full errors
Date: 3 Oct 1995 06:22:48 GMT
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In article <44lbn5$23t@ionews.io.org>, Geoff Davidson <geoffred@io.org> wrote:
> 	...is there nothing at boot time that tries to write to /tmp?
> if so...what if /var is mounted on a different partition?

Then you create a /var/tmp that'll get covered by the mount point. I remember
I had to do that for System V, but I think the file system mounts in BSD are
early enough it's not an issue.
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