Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:58:43 -0600 From: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two Questions Message-ID: <200110301953.f9UJrfl30704@ashram.rhavenn.net> In-Reply-To: <20011029163532.75231.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011029163532.75231.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>
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Answer to questions 1: Yes, you can do that and it would free up space. Just make sure to do it in single user mode, otherwise you could have problems :) As fro drawbacks, none except you still only have 2 filesystems, but you are getting stuff off of root which the "important" one. Answer to question 2: *ALWAYS* get out of the floppy directory and unmount it before ejecting the disk. As for the cd .. not working, you could have done cd / or something similar, but the cd .. didn't work since you removed the filesystem and the .. directory wasn't actually there anymore. The sendmail part..hmmm... I am not sure :) Henrik On Monday 29 October 2001 10:35, Wayne Lubin wrote: > 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 -- Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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