Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:27 PM -0500 Mike McCarty 
<mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I guess I didn't make myself quite clear on this point. I want ONE (1)
> ONE partition on the new disc. I don't want an explicit limit on either
> /home or /tmp. I want them to share the disc. So a major part of my
> question really revolves around whether I can make /tmp be a
> soft link to /home/tmp when /home is a mount point for another
> fs.

Not a soft link but a loopback mount point. In /etc/fstab the entry would 
look like this:

/home/tmp /tmp none bind 0 0

(This presumes that /home has already been mounted earlier in the file.)