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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: MFS - Why? Date: 19 Jun 1996 06:19:59 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4q82lv$bs@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <AEn4jRr0u3@qsar.chem.msu.su> <npX7tgO@quack.kfu.com> <4po5am$6hc@news.zipnet.net> <Dt536J.MEK@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Andrew V. Stesin (stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua) wrote: : Or: what will you do after singleuser boot when you say 'vi'? : /var/tmp might not exist (or be mounted) at the moment. Just create /usr/tmp on the root filesystem. The "/tmp" bit of the usr filesystem will just obscure this when it's mounted. On a sideline, why do we have /tmp, /var/tmp and /usr/tmp anyway ? Wouldn't it be easier if we just had /tmp as a sym-link to where-ever we have some space - default /usr/tmp ? Then, people that want to mount a /tmp partition can do so (remove the sym-link and create it as a directory & mountpoint), and people that want it as part of /usr or /var can also do so. It took me a while to figure out why my laptop had problems editing big files: # l -d /tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Jun 17 23:04 /tmp -> usr/tmp drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Jun 17 23:06 /var/tmp drwxrwxrwt 4 bin bin 512 Jun 19 06:13 /usr/tmp # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 19966 16358 2012 89% / /dev/wd0s2e 703790 487382 160106 75% /usr /dev/wd0s1 306696 242648 64048 79% /dos procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....