Re: Partition Sizing

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:59:54 +1000


Zack Weinberg writes:
> In addition, you should symlink /tmp to /var/tmp and audit your rc
> scripts to make sure they don't need /tmp before /var is mounted.
> All modern distros I've tried get this right.

Why not just have /tmp a separate FS?

> It would be nice to be able to mount / ro and nosuid, but you can't
> do that because there tend to be a few suid executables in /bin, you
> frequently need to modify files in /etc, and login/logout needs to
> modify permissions on /dev nodes. devfs plus lots of symlinks may
> be able to correct this.

You don't need any symlinks with the standard devfs configuration
(devfs mounted on /dev). What makes you think you do?

Regards,

Richard....

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