Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:28:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Natalie Bales <nbales@globalsite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing and configuring, help! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405152620.17571U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35255350.75C2@globalsite.net>
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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Natalie Bales wrote: > We are NEWBIES and we are trying to install and configure FreeBSD. I > was reading the installation manual going through everything step. The > manual suggested to move /var to /usr/var. I copied the /var directory > to /usr/var and then tried to remove /var from the root directory. I > can not successfully remove /var. Moving /var to /usr/var may not be such a great idea since in the default setup /var is it's own partition. You'll waste the space unless you remount it somewhere eles.e > I continue to get an error saying > > rm: /var: Device busy. /var is a mountpoint, so to get rid of it you need to run `umount /var'. I would suggest mounting that partition elsewhere, like on /tmp. Modify /etc/fstab and change the reference to /var to /tmp, and reboot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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