Dear Gurus,
My question was:
> Since I recently made a full install of DU4.0B with a RZ29 as my system disk,
> I took the opportunity to create separate filesystems for /, /usr, /var and /tmp.
> is there a preferred or mandatory place for /tmp in fstab?
> before /usr? after /usr?
The overwhelming consensus (although with some discrepencies) is:
place /tmp BEFORE /usr
Marie-Claude Vialatte made an interesting point, here is her answer:
> I have put /tmp in "memory file system", by putting in /etc/fstab this
> line (for 100 Mbytes) :
> -s102400 /tmp mfs rw 1 0
> As explained in fstab(4) and mfs(8), with this feature, /tmp takes place
> in virtual memory (swap space).
> And it is more easy to change its size.
> BUT, of course, its contents is lost at every shutdown.
I also include A. Rollow's answer:
> You only need to put it before a file system mounted under
> it, which is unlikely for /tmp. I don't think there is a
> mandatory place, but I've never seen the line for the root
> anywhere but first. Where you put really depends on where
> you want to see it in a df(1) listing...
My thanks to: M-C. Vialatte, Lars Bro, Dejan Muhamedagic, Alan Rollow,
Richard Renshaw,Javier Aida
Jean-Loup
Received on Wed Jul 23 1997 - 11:18:46 NZST