[773] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: why is /dev/sd3a mounted on /var/tmp on quiche?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Thu Oct 27 20:18:17 1994
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 20:18:04 -0400
To: ckclark@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199410270752.DAA00302@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu> (ckclark@MIT.EDU)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Calvin writes:
It looks like a root partition.
It is a root partition. It is also /var/tmp.
As that guy in The Princess Bride said, "let me explain". I've been
mildly involved in the development of a miserable failure of a Linux
distribution called Debian. A few weeks ago, the newest Debian base
system was privately released to the developers. I wanted to install
it somewhere to try it out. And there was /var/tmp on Quiche, a 100
meg partition with about 95 megs free. So I installed it on there and
played with it for a while.
When I was done playing with it, I didn't bother removing all the
files, since they're in a tmp directory, and somebody will make them
go away someday.
I think maybe I'll nuke them and play with the "Bogus" distribution on
that partition. :-)
I don't /usr/tmp/dev/null is very useful to have.
True. It's not particularly awful either.
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
