Subject: Re: help...
To: Tom Swiss <tms@tis.com>
From: Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/22/1996 07:46:40
In message <199602161629.LAA09962@ziggy.tis.com>, Tom Swiss writes:
> 
>      Can't help you with your first question, but for your second:
> 
> >An another problem: How can I make bigger the /tmp directory?
> >Some programs which use it are cancelled with "file system full".
> 
>      I made a /usr/tmp directory and symlinked /tmp to it.
> 
>  [ziggy 52] ls -ld /usr/tmp
> drwxrwxrwx  3 root  35  512 Feb 15 15:04 /usr/tmp/
>  [ziggy 53] ls -ld /tmp
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8 Feb  9 13:13 /tmp@ -> /usr/tmp
> 
>      Never had any problem.

If you do this, just keep in mind that /usr/tmp will be emptied at each
reboot.  Also, the daily script's clean routines maintain a longer lifetime
for /usr/tmp files (7 days) than /tmp files (3 days).  For that reason,
some people want to these directories separate.