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Re: Renaming partition (Was Missing files)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Shepard)
Mon Oct 19 09:27:17 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 06:28:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Dave P wrote:
> What about renaming that /tmp partition to something like /stuff, and
> let the real tmp directory to be with my / directory.
> Can I do that? If so, how do I do that? just rename it?
Let me suggest that the better way is to create a directory (say,
/new_files) in your home directory. The kernel expects certain files to be
in specific directories. If you really want the directory to be called,
'tmp', then make another one in /home/<username>.
Rich
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