Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

2000-12-05 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 04 2000, Lee Maguire wrote: > making /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp is usually fine. The only caveat > I'm aware of is that it changes some standard "housekeeping" issues. Not only that, but /tmp is unavailable until /var becomes mounted, which is a bad thing. []s, Ro

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

2000-12-04 Thread Lee Maguire
[2000-12-04] Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Well, i have /tmp as symlink to /vr/tmp (and /var is on another partition, making /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp is usually fine. The only caveat I'm aware of is that it changes some standard "housekeeping" issues. Much of /tmp is intended to be wiped on bo

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

2000-12-04 Thread Chad '^chewie' Walstrom
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:09:27PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. For reasons of filesystem integrity, you should not use /usr or / directories for your /tmp directory. Likewise, /usr/src or /usr/local/src should be installed

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

2000-12-04 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. Well, i have /tmp as symlink to /vr/tmp (and /var is on another partition, while /usr is on the same as root) because of space,quotas and also because of my personal opinion is - partitions where directories like /usr and / exists sh

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

2000-11-14 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:40:18PM +0100, Attila Csosz wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. > > I did the followings: > > umount /tmp ; mv tmp tmp2 ; rewrite /tmp to /tmp2 in /etc/fstab > mkdir /usr/tmp ; ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp ; chown 777 /usr/tmp ; cho

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

2000-11-14 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Debian User wrote: > I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. > > umount /tmp ; mv tmp tmp2 ; rewrite /tmp to /tmp2 in /etc/fstab > mkdir /usr/tmp ; ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp ; chown 777 /usr/tmp ; chown 777 /tmp > chmod root:sys /usr/tmp Well, swapping chown

/usr/tmp instead of /tmp

2000-11-14 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. I did the followings: umount /tmp ; mv tmp tmp2 ; rewrite /tmp to /tmp2 in /etc/fstab mkdir /usr/tmp ; ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp ; chown 777 /usr/tmp ; chown 777 /tmp chmod root:sys /usr/tmp Is it enough or good? Thanks Attila --