Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!kailand.kai.com!pwolfe From: pwolfe@kailand.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: limiting resources Message-ID: <8909291458.AA15606@kailand.kai.com> Date: 29 Sep 89 14:58:35 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Kuck and Associates, Inc., 1906 Fox Drive, Champaign IL 61820, voice 217-356-2288, fax 217-356-5199 Lines: 19 > Written by tom@watale.UUCP > > Well, we have /tmp on a separate partition (the root partition) with normally > about 8.5 MB of free space. When setting up our systems (both System V and BSD), I replace /tmp with a symbolic link to /usr/tmp, which has lots more free space than the root partition does. Many programs (both user and system alike) like to temporarily store huge files in /tmp. On the SGI systems, I also had to edit /etc/init.d/RMTMPFILES to change "mkdir /tmp" with "ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp", or my change would be undone at the next boot. This does not cause any problems with normal operations (nothing uses /tmp before /usr gets mounted). -- Patrick Wolfe (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat) System Manager, Kuck & Associates, Inc.