Quick dumb question...

[Bruce Dawson]

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Brian Chabot wrote:

| Bruce Dawson wrote:
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|> Careful here; some systems won't boot if /tmp is a symlink.
|> (Well, more specifically, some of the init scripts will fail.
|> This is especially true for legacy (not Fedora Legacy) systems.
|> Although I seem to remember this was mostly corrected in some
|> earlier Linux (possibly as long ago as 1.0 kernel based systems,
|> I do remember that some distributions still had problems).
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| Is there a way to specify on boot the new location?  Like...
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| linux RMPDIR=/home/tmp
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| ...or something like that?

Not that I'm aware of. If I were you, I would try it, and if it
doesn't work, revert back to a "Plan B". I really suspect the /tmp
symlink problem has been fixed, but I haven't tried it recently.

| Brian
|
| PS: Linking /tmp to /home/tmp seems to be working.... so far.  New
| hardware is on its way, but no ETA.

Good. You're probably good to go.

- --Bruce
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