Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 08:08:52 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, nick nelson <nick@arpa.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repartition /tmp? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030503080852.01372fe8@sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <p0521060cbad9137fcf03@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com> <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com>
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At 02:41 AM 5.3.2003 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 12:41 AM -0500 5/2/03, nick nelson wrote: >>On Fri May 02, 2003, 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 [simple 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.) > >I assume you can afford to reboot the machine. > > - Edit /etc/fstab to comment out the entry for /tmp > - Reboot > >You will now have a /tmp directory, and you will not have a >partition mounted over that directory. Move the /tmp directory If I'm following this thread right, why would he need to reboot..?? Couldn't he just do this..? #umount /tmp rm -rf /tmp ln -s /usr/tmp tmp mount /tmp That should do it.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net
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