Re: /tmp in a small root partition (was: Bug#65511: realplayer won't install (no space left on device))
Stephan Niemz wrote:
> IMHO it's a Good Thing to have a small root partition and a large /usr
> (and perhaps other large partitions for /var and/or /home). I could make
> /tmp a symlink to /usr/tmp or /var/tmp if I could be sure that nothing
> needs /tmp at boot time before the other partitions are mounted. Is there
> some kind of policy that assures this? (Cc'ing to debian-devel for this.)
I'm not sure about assurances, but I've been running my system
like this for a while. / partition = 30MB, /tmp symlinked to
/var/tmp, which is one a different partition.
It works. To be honest, when I set it up I didn't consider
the possibility that it might not work...
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