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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /usr a misnomer?  (was File Syst
Message-ID: <5695@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 16:53:57 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5695
Posted: Fri Mar 20 16:53:57 1987
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References: <5025@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5025@brl-adm.ARPA> preece%mycroft@gswd-vms.arpa (Scott E. Preece) writes:
>On the other hand, today many of us run with nice, b-i-g /tmp partitions
>and with /usr partitions that are basically static and mostly full,
>rendering that strategy ill advised...

So make /usr/tmp a symlink to /tmp, or mount a nice empty fast file
system as /usr/tmp.

It is essential that /tmp not be used for lots of large files; if
/tmp runs out of space, numerous essential system utilities malfunction.
(Whether they should break so easily is a separate issue.)  The
worst offenders (outside the 4BSD world) seem to be some text editors.