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Date:      Fri, 2 May 2003 00:43:11 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To:        <nick@arpa.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: repartition /tmp?
Message-ID:  <64482.200.67.206.87.1051854191.squirrel@mail.esfm.ipn.mx>
In-Reply-To: <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com>
References:  <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com>

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> On Fri May 02, 2003; 12:30AM -0500 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 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.)
>

Restart your computer and go single user.
do it then.


> nick
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>>
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