Re: [osol-discuss] Is a /tmp slice a wise move on Solaris?

2007-08-29 Thread Tim Scanlon
Things in a full reboot inside /tmp should disappear, things in /var/tmp should not, that other OS's don't do this is just another missing spoke in the reinvented wheel. One of the nice features of zfs on a /var slice is that you can have it be a compressed fs, which is nice for logs in a lot

[osol-discuss] Is a /tmp slice a wise move on Solaris?

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hello, I have my roots in the Linux and *BSD worlds. When I install a system, I am used to create separated partitions (slices) for /usr, /opt, /, /var, /tmp. It's an old habit. I just like it this way... ;) Now I wonder, regarding Solaris, I read that to create a /tmp slice was not such a

Re: [osol-discuss] Is a /tmp slice a wise move on Solaris?

2007-08-28 Thread David Lloyd
Daniel, I have my roots in the Linux and *BSD worlds. When I install a system, I am used to create separated partitions (slices) for /usr, /opt, /, /var, /tmp. It's an old habit. I just like it this way... ;) Fair enough...you may want to look into ZFS at some stage which makes

Re: [osol-discuss] Is a /tmp slice a wise move on Solaris?

2007-08-28 Thread Casper . Dik
I have my roots in the Linux and *BSD worlds. When I install a system, I am used to create separated partitions (slices) for /usr, /opt, /, /var, /tmp. It's an old habit. I just like it this way... ;) There's a downward trend in the number of partitions; I remember needing to have two