[Nottingham] any issues symlinking /tmp -> /var/tmp ?

[Tom Bird]

Rob Andrews wrote:
> [13-Aug-2005 18:35.43 (BST) / Michael]
>  > Quick question, on my Debian-based system I would like to symlink /tmp 
>  > to /var/tmp since /var is on a separate partition with space and / is 
>  > occasionally quickly filled. Any golden rules broken by doing this?
> 
> Often /var is mounted some few stages after the root filesystem on a
> machine with separate filesystems. Should anything during the essential
> boot item startup phase require /tmp storage space it may find /tmp is a
> dangling symlink.

I often mount /tmp as a separate FS, in case Something Happens and it 
should become full, e.g

/dev/hdc1             526M   32K  499M   1% /tmp
and
/dev/da0s1f    203M    148K    187M     0%    /tmp

(on two very different machines) -- I suppose with a view towards making 
anything that doesn't absolutely require RW access read only.  However, 
that does seem like something of a pain in the arse.

Unless I'm very much mistaken as to how these things work, nothing 
should need RW access until all the file systems are mounted...  I 
believe / is initially mounted RO anyway?  Often is after a single user 
mode boot.

-- 
Tom

Barcelona, Es.