Re: Symlinking /home and /tmp with bsdinstaller to save space

["George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:48:43PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:58:29AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>> /
>> swap
>> /var
>> /usr
>> 
>> then symlink 
>> 
>> /var/tmp
>
>This ought to be on permanent storage.

Yes, I generally don't put any partitions in a memory filesystem.
There may be specialty applications where it would be desirable.
And indeed, I do sometimes mount a temporary ram filesystem, for
archive extraction/build. That can be a lot quicker then extracting
and writing on one disk, but I nuke the memory filesystem when done
because how much available ram helps a running system performance.

// George


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