Re: Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

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--On Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:33 AM -0500 leam <leam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you're in a link, some will see the linked
directory, some will see the linked to directory.

So if you made a link of /tmp to /home/tmp, some programs might see you
in /tmp, some in  /home/tmp which is often not what you want.  :)
loopbacks avoid this.

Aha! Thanks, I couldn't remember why symlinks were sometimes the Wrong Solution. It can be tricky traversing rootwards (ie. "..") through a symlink, as some things follow the linked-from path and some follow the linked-to path. Not a good thing for such an important system directory. Mount points are unambiguous.



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