On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:24:56PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Christian Jaeger wrote: > > > - Are there no problems making /var (and /var/cache) and /tmp > > symlinks to another partition? > > Don't make them symlinks; just make them mount points. I always set up > separate filesystems for /var and /tmp. > Yep - me too!
> > - Getting it right for the boot process (should I make / reiser or > > ext2?): I assume I need to have /etc, /bin and /sbin on the root > > partition. What about /usr? > > It's never occurred to me to put /etc, /bin, or /sbin on any filesystem > other than the root. I would guess that that would not be a good idea, > since the boot process might (?) need access to them before it gets > around to mounting all the default filesystems (for one thing, the mount > command itself lives in /bin), but I'm not really sure. In the interests of maximising hard-disc usage, I once moved the contents of /lib to another partition (non-root) and created a sym-link. An hour later I had repaired the damage - it really don't like it!!! :-( Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.
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