Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 09:06:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repartition /tmp? Message-ID: <20030503085424.T13214@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20030503080852.01372fe8@sage-one.net> References: <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com> <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com><20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com> <3.0.5.32.20030503080852.01372fe8@sage-one.net>
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On Sat, 3 May 2003, Jack L. Stone wrote: > 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.... yes, I believe they just want to check if there'd be no problem in a future boot. > > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, > Administrator > > SageOne Net > http://www.sage-one.net > jackstone@sage-one.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > - ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | |
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