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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /tmp
Message-ID: <10484@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 20:16:32 GMT
References: <5712@lynx.UUCP> <10390@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
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In article <10390@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <5712@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
>>What bad bad things happen if I symbolically link /tmp to /usr/tmp?

>As you suggested later, the main thing to worry about is that /tmp
>is probably required before the /usr filesystem is mounted.

That is easy to deal with as long as no file in /tmp needs to survive
the mounting of /usr.  Just create a /usr/tmp under the /usr mount
point directory, ie, mkdir /usr/tmp while /usr is not mounted.  Then
the symbolic link will have somewhere to point during the early boot
phase and single user mode.  Actually most people I know who do this
use /usr/realtmp or something like that rather than /usr/tmp.  I can't
think of anything that will collide off the top of my head by why
risk it.
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