Multiple Partition Mounting

[Shiner_Man]

I've done this a bunch of times but I don't know what went wrong here. I'm setting up a test server at my house and I created multiple partitions as follows:

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/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 /swap
/dev/hda3 /
/dev/hda5 /tmp
/dev/hda6 /var
/dev/hda7 /opt
/dev/hda8 /home

They all have the approprate filesystems on them as well. Then I did:

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# swapon /dev/hda2
# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

Now if I remember correctly I need to create the directories for the other partitions and mount them as follows:

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# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/tmp
# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/gentoo/tmp
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var
# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo/var
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/opt
# mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo/opt
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home
# mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/gentoo/home

and also do the following for /tmp:

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chmod 1777 /mnt/gentoo/tmp

Is this the right way to do it? From here I should just be able to extract the tarball, chroot in and go shouldn't I?

Also, what is a reasonable size for the /tmp partition? This has been asked before but I've never seen anybody make a definitive answer.

[keyson]

Hi.

Looks ok to me. FYI my /tmp contains 45M on a system that i used for about 3 years.
Maybe you can get some more to do

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du -sh /tmp

To get an good estimation for the tmp.

[Shiner_Man]

Yeah I thought I did it right. It turns out the problem was devfs but thats another story.

Anyway, I can see that my /tmp directory on this server that I've had running for a long time is only up to 38M. I still wonder though what a recommended size is and I've yet to find any "official" stance on this from the devs or any other linux distribution.