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From: kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /tmp
Message-ID: <43200080@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 89 16:02:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!kai    Jun  9 11:02:00 1989


> What bad bad things happen if I symbolically link /tmp to /usr/tmp?  My
> root file system is tiny and I run out of space often.  Thanks to the
> Mike McNally                              uucp: {voder,athsys}!lynx!m5

Nothing bad should happen.  I have done this on a few of our BSD and SVR3
systems where we didn't have enough disk space to create a standalone /tmp
partition, and /usr had about 60 Mb free space.  Just make sure your boot time
scripts don't "rm -rf /tmp; mkdir /tmp" like one System V host I have did.