From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 27 13: 0: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tellurian.net (gate.tellurian.net [216.182.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF52337B403 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:59:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walt@betan.com) Received: from walt99 (unverified [216.182.21.191]) by tellurian.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:59:58 -0400 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010727155732.00c948e0@pop3.palace.net> X-Sender: walterbetanc@pop3.palace.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:59:09 -0400 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Walter Betancourt Subject: tmp and var to usr/tmp and usr/var Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, can someone get me out of this cage, trying to make /usr/tmp and /usr/var and remove /tmp and /var then link to /usr/tmp and /usr/var can create /usr/tmp and /usr/var ok and move /var contents to /usr/var ok trying to rm -rf /tmp or /var gets 'device busy' tried single user mode, get 'file system read only' tried /mount -u / can then remove /var and /tmp and ln -s to /usr/var and /usr/tmp but then cant get out of this mode. I'm sure there must be a simple way to do this but cant find it in doc's or faq's thanks for any help. Walt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message