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? My system has been working fine for a while now with /tmp -> /var/tmp and with /var on a separate partition. Just in case, though, i've always created /var/tmp in the root partition (which is of course obscured when /var is mounted) so that a valid tmp directory always exists. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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