Re: /tmp (as a RAM disk?) in a small root partition
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:21:11PM +0200, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 13:13:38 +0200,
> Stephan Niemz <st.n@gmx.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > I can't quite see this disaster, because under normal operation nothing
> > tries to write to the root partition, except for /tmp.
>
> every mount operation writes to /etc/mtab. and no, you can't move it to
> another partition.
>
you can link it to /proc/mounts, with no negative consequences I know of
(except df and mount will produce uglier output)
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