Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On 17 Aug 1999 goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

> I think policy states that / and /usr should readonly mountable, so to 
> fullfill that policy /var, /tmp and /home must be partitions. The
Not necessaryly.  Since a long time I used to do the following
to mount / readonly:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Jul 20 07:19 tmp -> var/rtmp

so /tmp is physically on the /var partition, which makes sense in
my opinion.

> suggestion should be made to have them on another partition. The
> benefits and drawbacks should be explained in the online help.

Kind regards

          Andreas.