From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 19: 1:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1727414D9D for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:01:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA26902; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:31:29 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA14116; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:31:09 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990308133108.E490@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:31:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Oleg Ogurok , neill rr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var -- Device Busy References: <19990306154152.2604.rocketmail@send103.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Oleg Ogurok on Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:04:41AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 7 March 1999 at 10:04:41 -0500, Oleg Ogurok wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, neill rr wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> While following the instructions in "The Complete FreeBSD" about >> relocating the /var and creating a symbolic link to it, when I try to >> remove the old /var directory, this is what I get: >> >> #rm /var >> rm: /var: Device Busy > > You may need to load FreeBSD is a singe-user mode. When it boots and you > see the 'boot' prompt, type '-s'. Then try. I'm guessing that the problem you have is that you have not quite followed the example in the book, which didn't allocate a /var file system. I suspect that you have done so, and you still have it mounted. You won't be able to umount it until you stop all processes which have files open on the file system, such as syslogd. But that's OK. You can rename it (I personally call it /VAR). Next time you reboot (to multi-user mode), nothing will open it, and you can remove it. BTW, you won't be able to rm the /var directory at any time, simply because it's a directory. You'll have to use rmdir. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message