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Re: Must /tmp be on boot partition?



On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 06:30:35PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote:
: Does /tmp have to be physically located on the boot
: partition, or can it be a symlink to /var/tmp on another
: partition?  I've seen conflicting statements in different
: references/howtos/manpages - some say that the link works,
: and others say that the boot process needs temp space, and
: uses /tmp for that purpose, so it needs to be on the boot
: partition.  Does anyone have conclusive proof (ie: a working
: system of their own) that the symlink to /var/tmp works?

I don't have conclusive proof, but I can tell you that I've built several
machines which have /tmp mounted on a seperate partition, and I don't
see much practical difference between that and a symlink to another
seperate partition ...

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