Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:07:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Link problem - /var to /usr/var - now X won't load Message-ID: <20000126170702.P44457@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <388D3FEC.AC0BA96C@wiegand.org> References: <388BDBFC.E517B01C@wiegand.org> <20000125162213.A333@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <388D3FEC.AC0BA96C@wiegand.org>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 24 January 2000 at 22:17:17 -0800, Chip Wiegand wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. I immediately tried your suggestions > and immediately got the following message - > > mv: cannot rename a mount point Oh. > Bummer... the /var in the message below is a partition that was set > up as such during the initial installation and partitioning of the > hard drive. I'm not sure, but that may complicate things a bit? Not this particular issue. Your problem is reclaiming the space for /var after you stop using it. I think the easy way for you is to modify /etc/fstab as described and reboot as single user. I'll think of a reasonable way to do this later. > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 23 January 2000 at 20:58:37 -0800, Chip Wiegand wrote: >>> I bought the FreeBSD Powerpak and got it installed without any problems. >>> During the partitioning section I set up a /var partition of 100 megs, a >>> root partition of 100 megs, and left a couple gigs for /usr, and >>> entering df on the command line also shows a /proc partition of 4 1-k >>> blocks. >>> Here is the output of df - >> >> Please don't wrap output, it makes it very difficult to read. > Is this regarding the below output? If not, I have netscape mail set to 72 column word wrap, should I change that to > make it easier to read in other mail programs? I just entered the text as I saw it on the other machine and used tab > for the spacing. I guess it didn't work like I wanted to. It's regarding the paragraph immediately above, as well. It should look something like: > Is this regarding the below output? If not, I have netscape mail set > to 72 column word wrap, should I change that to make it easier to > read in other mail programs? I just entered the text as I saw it on > the other machine and used tab for the spacing. I guess it didn't > work like I wanted to. I don't think there is any program out there which handles word wrap correctly. It's much more complicated than a normal program can handle. Turn word wrap off and press Enter at the appropriate time. Netscape won't help you; in fact, it makes it almost impossible to send properly formatted mail. See the URL for more details. >>> I get a # sign prompt and enter login >>> I then login as a user, not root, and enter startx. >> >> Hmm. Not what you should be doing. You're still in single user mode, >> and you probably don't have all file systems mounted. >> >>> It appears to start but then quits to the command prompt again with the >>> following messages - >>> >>> <complaints omitted> >> > > Sorry if you took this part as complaints, I didn't mean for that > interpetation, they were the messages from starting kde. No, I understood the way you meant it. > Once again, thanks for your help. You must be one of very few > authors that actually read the newsgroups and actually help people. > :-) You're welcome. How can you know what to write if you haven't solved real-world problems? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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