Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

[Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 06:04:55PM +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote:
> Dale Scheetz writes:
>     > Link /tmp to /var/tmp and the system is complete, and should
>     > have enough disk space for installing almost any/all packages.
> 
> What happens if /var can't be mounted?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to create an extra partition for /tmp with 20 or
> 30 MBytes?  If /tmp can't be mounted, the system will still be able to
> use the mount point on the root filesystem.

So, just put /var/tmp on the root partition.  You can still mount on var.

Andrew