Re: devfs and tmpfs

2002-04-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, dman wrote: > I remember that guy. He had some trouble understanding that /tmp is > for temporary stuff and $HOME is for doing work. It reminds me of a few years ago when I was working as a tech intern at large on my high school campus and some teacher in the Community School

Re: devfs and tmpfs

2002-04-01 Thread dman
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:58:16PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: | begin dman quotation: | > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:30:44PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: | > | > | I remember an irate poster a while back coming at the list with "what | > | gives you the right to delete my data?!" after having stor

Re: devfs and tmpfs

2002-04-01 Thread Craig Dickson
begin dman quotation: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:30:44PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > | I remember an irate poster a while back coming at the list with "what > | gives you the right to delete my data?!" after having stored a bunch of > | stuff in /tmp and losing it across a reboot. It was so

Re: devfs and tmpfs

2002-04-01 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:30:44PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020331 22:04]: | > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 03:55:48AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | > | OK, I installed devfs and it seems to be working OK, I'm wondering how I | > | ditch the original disk-based /de

Re: devfs and tmpfs

2002-04-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020331 22:04]: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 03:55:48AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > | OK, I installed devfs and it seems to be working OK, I'm wondering how I > | ditch the original disk-based /dev filesystem now. > > Boot with a floppy or cd. Then you can get to

Re: devfs and tmpfs

2002-04-01 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 03:55:48AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | OK, I installed devfs and it seems to be working OK, I'm wondering how I | ditch the original disk-based /dev filesystem now. Boot with a floppy or cd. Then you can get to the contents of 'dev' on disk. (I need to do this so

devfs and tmpfs

2002-03-31 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
OK, I installed devfs and it seems to be working OK, I'm wondering how I ditch the original disk-based /dev filesystem now. Also, anybody try tmpfs, or should I stick with a disk-based /tmp and tmpreaper? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".