On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:24:43PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > > I dump to /mnt/usbck/backup. Since backup dir was not present, the > > > script created it under / > > > > Naughty script. It should check against doing something like that, eg > > [ ! -d $backupdir ] && echo "no $backupdir - not mounted?" && exit 1 > > > > You do have a very small root filesystem for the size of your disk, so > > similar disasters may need some preventing. Something will want to use > > more than 100M in /tmp sometime, so you may want to symlink /tmp to say > > /usr/tmp if you haven't already. > > Yes, that's true. You see this was my second or third attempt to > install FreeBSD which having been successful :) has survived up till > today and does what I want. I am sure I will do many things in a > different way in future than I did last time. For example, I would > like to reserve a separate partition for /home and a separate one for > mail so that I have as little trouble moving things around as > possible. But - hey - I am on this list and learning quite a lot! > > And thanks for the /usr/tmp symlink tip!
I actually prefer to make a separate filesystem (partition) for /tmp. That isolates it so it doesn't accidently trash another one, plus, you don't need to backup /tmp so I definitely don't want to put it somewhere that gets backed up and waste that backup space. ////jerry > > Zbigniew Szalbot > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
