Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:35:32 -0800 (PST) From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Two Questions Message-ID: <20011029163532.75231.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>
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Question 1 I have recently learned about the benefits of having /, /tmp, /var, and /usr all on separate file systems. Unfortunately when I installed freebsd I was not aware of this, so on my system I have only / and /usr on separate file systems. So this means that /var and /tmp are on / taking up room. My / is about 1 gig and my /usr is about 12 gigs. My question is this. Can I make directories /usr/tmp and /usr/var and copy everything currently in /tmp and /var into their coresponding directories on the /usr file system, and make sym links from /tmp to /usr/tmp and from /var to /usr/var. Wouldn't this have the effect of these directories not using any space on the / file system as desired? Any drawbacks? Question 2: I was learning how to get my floppy drive working, you know, mount etc... I got it mounted and I was in the /floppy directory. Did some ls commands and viewed a couple of files on the floppy with vi. When I was done I did a umount while I was still in /floppy. When it unmounted the floppy, I was left in "no mans land". It was acting as if I was not in any directory. When I tried a "cd .." the system crashed and rebooted. Now when I boot my system I get the following messages right next to each other.. Recovering vi editor sessions sendmail[119]: My unqualified hostname unknown; sleeping for retry and then after an annoying 1 min wait(guess it was sleeping) it comes back and says it will use the short name for hostname, and finishes booting. First of all, in my rc.conf my sendmail is NOT enabled, which seems to mean that some other program is trying to access sendmail. Secondly,in rc.conf I have hostname="wayne". My machine does not have a domain name associated with it, so it is not as if I can set this variable to anything meaningful. Thanks for your help on these questions. Wayne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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