Problems with lofs on Sun-3/4, SunOS 4.0, 4.0.1

Liudvikas Bukys bukys at cs.rochester.edu
Thu Feb 16 13:26:10 AEST 1989


In article <677 at holtec.se> perw at holtec.se (Per Westerlund) writes:
>Using SunOS 4.0 (4.0.1) there is available a so called "loopback virtual
>file system", lofs....I would like to use it to mount /var/tmp on /tmp,
>...(Replacing /tmp with a symbolic link to /var/tmp is not acceptable,
>makes single-user mode without /var mounted a bit hard.)

If that's your only objection to a symbolic link, then, while single-user,
with /var UNMOUNTED, do a "mkdir /var/tmp".  Then you'll have a small
/var/tmp on your root, to use when standalone, and you'll have your large
/var/tmp when you go multi-user.



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