At 9:37 PM -0500 11/13/01, der Mouse wrote:

>  It uses the /var/tmp in the underlying filesystem, of course.  (If you
>  don't have one, then you've mis-set-up your /tmp and you can expect to
>  lose.)

	I would believe that most people who put /var onto a separate 
filesystem probably will not think to create an additional tmp 
directory underneath the /var mount point, for the express purpose of 
being used while in single-user mode before /var is mounted.


	Moreover, I can imagine all sorts of nasty things that could 
happen if files were opened in this /var/tmp directory before the 
separate /var were mounted and then those file handles continued to 
be written to until the root filesystem filled up.

	Been there, done that, got both the t-shirt and the baseball cap.


	I re-iterate -- symlinking /tmp to /var/tmp is a really bad idea.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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