From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) Subject: ANSWER/APOLOGY: (Was Re: how to set temp variable? Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:56:39 GMT
In <1993Jan7.034504.27098@sfu.ca> wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
> Well, if I'm correct, linking /tmp to the new partition isn't gonna do
>you alot of good. What you need to do is do a 'mount /dev/hd?? /tmp',
>I think. Right after you've done a 'mkfs -c /dev/hd?? <blocks>'.
> Guys, am I correct on this matter? Or did I screw up big time with
>that answer?
that seems to be correct. I however mounted a /dev/hd onto /usr/tmp, not
/tmp. It seems to be working well; xv and cjpeg/djpeg can write their tmp
files no problem. (I have a 5 meg partition mounted to /usr/tmp btw).
Sorry for posting Unix general questions to this newsgroup. . . I will post
future non-Linux related q's to comp.os.unix.questions (sic?).
-- Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>