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Brian V. Smith envbvs at epb2.lbl.gov
Sat Jun 10 07:01:31 AEST 1989


In article <10390 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <5712 at lynx.UUCP> m5 at lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
> >What bad bad things happen if I symbolically link /tmp to /usr/tmp?
> 
> As you suggested later, the main thing to worry about is that /tmp
> is probably required before the /usr filesystem is mounted.

We haven't had any problem with our /tmp directory sym-linked to
/usr/tmp.from.root (as we call it).  It doesn't seem that it is needed
during booting.

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith at lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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