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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:46:32 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        jaymax <jaymax36@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cant remove /var, in relocating /var to a symbolic link
Message-ID:  <20081006224632.GA71290@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19847627.post@talk.nabble.com>
References:  <19847627.post@talk.nabble.com>

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On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:31:42PM -0700, jaymax wrote:
>=20
> I am attempting to relocate /var to avoid files system full issues.=20
> Using a -
> 	mkdir /usr/var
> 	cd /var
> 	tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - )
> 	cd /
> 	rm -rf /var
> 	ln -s /usr/var /var
> approach
>=20
> at the=20
> rm -rf /var step, the following was received
> 	rm: /var/empty: Operation not permitted

/var/empty has the system immutable flag set :-)

slackbox:~> ls -lod /var/empty
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  schg 512 Oct  9  2005 /var/empty/


> 	rm: /var/named/dev: Device busy

If you have named(8) running with named_chrootdir set to /var/named in
/etc/rc.conf, a devfs(5) filesystem will be mounted on
/var/named/dev. That's what keeping the device busy.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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