Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:45:06 -0500 From: "Richard M. Neswold" <rneswold@drmemory.fnal.gov> To: dorseb@hol.fr Cc: FreeBSD-Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Where to put /var and /tmp Message-ID: <19980918104506.A4800@drmemory.fnal.gov> In-Reply-To: <199809181416.QAA22690@mail2.hol.fr>; from dorseb on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 04:16:23PM %2B0200 References: <199809181416.QAA22690@mail2.hol.fr>
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If memory serves, didn't dorseb say:
> I have the complete FreeBSD 2.2.6 book. On the chapter 4 section Where to
> put /var and /tmp. They said to make kind of housekeeping in order to avoid
> root file system fill up.
If you used auto-disklabelling (when you installed FreeBSD), then /var is
in its own partition and you don't have to worry about it filling /.
> Well I did it, and I can't even run vi on my machine. Here are the stuff
> that I did from the book:
[...snipped steps taken to mess system...]
> It would be great if I could remove the /var in order to make the correct
> link at /. I tried to rename /var but it say that I can't rename a mounted
> file and even umount it.
This indicates that /var was in its own partition. You didn't need to move
/var in this case. Only /tmp needed to be moved from the root filesystem.
> I decided to boot my computer and then I can't do anything.
> Well the only stuff that I can do is to restart the installation from the
> CD. If someomeone can help me it would very kind.
Boot your system. When you see the boot prompt, type "-s" (without the
quotes). This will boot the system in single-user mode. When you get to a
shell prompt, only / will have been mounted. You'll have to do something
along the lines of:
mount -uo rw / # this remounts / so it's writable
mv /var /var.bak # we'll deal with current /var later
ln -s /usr/var /var # make the link
mount /usr # attach /usr (and /var via the link)
You should be able to run 'vi' now. If this is so, edit /etc/fstab and
comment out the /var entry.
Now if you hit Ctrl-D, to log out, the system will come up in multiuser
mode. If you correctly copied your /var to /usr/var (as your message
suggests) the system should be fine. You can now take care of /var.bak
(i.e. delete it).
Hope this helps...
--
Rich
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