owl-users - Re: got a problem with /tmp

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:07:28 +0300
From: Oleg Lukashin <phd@...a.ru>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: got a problem with /tmp

* Markus Ackermann (maol@...link.ch) wrote:
> Remove /tmp from /etc/fstab, reboot into single user mode, create the
> symlink.

No way. There is no /tmp in fstab, because it's not on another
partition.

> But why would you want such a setup? Why not making /var/tmp a
> symlink to /tmp?

Because I use root fs on read-only partition and I need /tmp to
be available for writing.

> Markus.
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Best regards,
Oleg Lukashin
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