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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /tmp
Message-ID: <1567@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 05:41:34 GMT
References: <43200080@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <310@ohs.UUCP>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <310@ohs.UUCP>, mday@ohs.UUCP (Matthew T. Day) writes:
> We have also done such a thing (link /tmp to /usr/tmp), with only one
> side effect.  When we enter single user mode for disk backups, it
> complains that about the set-up, and we have to manually mount /usr.

Not at all - just mkdir /usr/tmp, with /usr not mounted.  Then when
/usr is unmounted, /usr/tmp is on your root partition, but it exists.
When you mount /usr, everything in the root partition's /usr is hidden,
and whatever's in the filesystem appears there, complete with /usr/tmp.

I'd advise clearing /usr/tmp before mounting /usr in your boot script,
though, to make sure it doesn't accumulate junk and gradually fill your
root partition.

					der Mouse

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