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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question about /tmp Date: 3 Jan 1997 21:29:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 46 Message-ID: <5ajtof$fnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5agud4$6jr@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Cc: crs@swcp.com,crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33589 crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) wrote: > should have asked is "What can I do to prevent /tmp from filling up > my root file system?" Make it a separate partition in the first place. ;-) (That's the solution that i prefer.) > Suppose that I create /usr/tmp with the same modes as /tmp (i.e. > drwxrwxrwt) and create a symbolic link to /tmp. > > First: Will this work or will it break something? One thing that I It will work. > can foresee is that, when /usr isn't mounted (e.g. in single user > mode) I'd have no /tmp. Very simple: create a /usr/tmp in your root filesystem (must do this while you're in single-user mode, but apparently with the root f/s mounted r/w). So it will be available without /usr mounted, but will later be shadowed by that mount. Most people seem to prefer keeping /usr untouched. For systems where i don't have a separate /tmp filesystems, i usually go with a large enough /var filesystem, and make /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp. Of course, the same holds valid here for a /var/tmp inside the root filesystem. Of course^2, you want to kill the (IMHO fairly useless) rm -rf /tmp/* stuff from /etc/rc then. (Why it is useless? Simple. My systems are being booted too seldom. Hence i prefer run-time auto-cleanup. But that's a matter of taste.) > I try to keep up with the news group but, just in case, could you > Cc: any responses to either crs@swcp.com or crs@hamlet.lanl.gov, > please? [Cc sent] -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)