From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 07:44:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5D337B404 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 07:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2902643F75 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 07:44:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h42EilWn068398; Fri, 2 May 2003 09:44:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:44:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: nick nelson Message-ID: <20030502144447.GA94877@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repartition /tmp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 14:44:50 -0000 In the last episode (May 02), nick nelson said: > On Fri May 02, 2003; 12:30AM -0500 Dan Nelson propagated the following: > > > I appeared to have mitakenly made my /tmp partition on this > > > machine way too small (missed a 0 completely.). > > > > > What I end up doing is removing /tmp and symlinking it to /usr/tmp. > > This sounds like a good idea, however it's not as just deleting it is > it? Since it's a partition. It'll give me a 'device busy' error if i > try to delete it (as expected.) Ah. In that case just remove it from fstab so it never gets mounted. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com