Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:10 AM +0930 Tim 
<ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> So, as far as I can see, /tmp doesn't have to be around until /etc/fstab
> has been paid attention to.

The directory should be there, and if something writes to it, then mounting 
over it will simply hide the files that were written in the mount point 
directory. This can be confusing if you use a utility like the dump backup 
program to read the filesystem through the raw hardware (eg. /dev/hda1) as 
it can "see" the files hidden by the mount point. But that's a very unusual 
situation.