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From: mi@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MFS - Why?
Date: 13 Jun 1996 04:27:02 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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<DsFL3q.4Hw@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> <4p23fh$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Honorable J Wunsch
wrote on 04 Jun (in article <4p23fh$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de>):
=stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) wrote:
=
>> Not the only one.
>>
>> Generally, having /tmp as MFS allows you to keep your root
>> partition clean (and don't waste a separate partition for
>> tempfiles).
=
=You can achieve _this_ as well by symlinking /tmp to /var/tmp.
And get vi.recover wiped out by /tmp cleaner at the boot time?
-mi
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