Re: [tlug] Using TAR

[roy lo <roylo@example.com>]

Not a good ideal; you are running of possible risk of losing log this 
way. ie. if in some "unnatural" way your /tmp was full with junks and 
eat up your /var partition. then you won't have any updated logs (unless 
you have set your logs to store in some where else)





> 
> /tmp should not be on / either.
> i link it to /var/root-tmp though and make /var a little bigger.
> (i used to link it to /var/tmp but i don't want /var/tmp get emptied like /tmp)
> 
> the same way i link /home to /usr/local/home because it is not easy to
> estimate where i need more space.
> 
> on systems used by multiple users this is not necessarily a good
> idea though.
> 
> greetings, martin.
>