On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 04:05:28PM +0100, Wojtek wrote:
> > Why can't you do ONE partition+swap for everything?
> > I know it's less safe, but why not for single-user system/workstation?
> > Or 3 partitions-/,swap/usr ?
> 
> I like to keep my / and /usr stable (with no files changing) and put temp
> files, mail, logs, etc. on /tmp and /var (and /home).
But i think /tmp and /var could be on the same partition (when not using
mfs), by linking /var/tmp to /tmp