stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) (09/30/89)
I know this doesn't strictly belong here, but the topic has been runing around here so I'll brave flames and post it anyway. Here is a solution to /tmp space problems: The root filesystem: /tmp = symlink to /usr/tmp /usr = directory, mount point for usr filesystem most of the time /usr/tmp = directory, hidden under usr filesystem most of the time, but available when usr filesystem is umounted The usr filesystem: / = the filesystem's root, mounted as /usr /tmp = directory, accessible as /usr/tmp when usr filesystem is mounted, and as /tmp because of the symlink I used this for more than a year and never had a problem. I used the symlink without the /usr/tmp in the root partition for a while, but had the problem of a utility failing in an attempt to write to /tmp because the symlink pointed nowhere, which is what prompted me to think of the idea of having a /usr/tmp on the root partition, ordinarily hidden under the /usr mount point. Feel free to repost this in places where it really belongs (I won't, unless I see the topic discussed). -- Steve Schonberger microsoft!stevesc@uunet.uu.net "Working under pressure is the sugar that we crave" --A. Lamb