Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:27:39 -0800 From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Link problem - /var to /usr/var - now X won't load Message-ID: <388D5068.2E604DAB@wiegand.org> References: <388BDBFC.E517B01C@wiegand.org> <20000125162213.A333@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <388D3FEC.AC0BA96C@wiegand.org> <20000126170702.P44457@freebie.lemis.com>
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Thankyou so much Mr. Lehey. It's back working again! I did the df command the prompt and now there is now /var partition. Do I need one? Now I can stop using my firewall for checking my email (in netscape), its only a 486dx4/100, *very* slow for this kind of stuff. :-) But fine for a firewall. -Chip Greg Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > Thankyou for the link, I read it all the way thru, very good information. > > On Monday, 24 January 2000 at 22:17:17 -0800, Chip Wiegand wrote: > > > Thanks for the quick response. I immediately tried your suggestions > > and immediately got the following message - > > > > mv: cannot rename a mount point > > Oh. > > > Bummer... the /var in the message below is a partition that was set > > up as such during the initial installation and partitioning of the > > hard drive. I'm not sure, but that may complicate things a bit? > > Not this particular issue. Your problem is reclaiming the space for > /var after you stop using it. > > I think the easy way for you is to modify /etc/fstab as described and > reboot as single user. I'll think of a reasonable way to do this > later. > > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >> On Sunday, 23 January 2000 at 20:58:37 -0800, Chip Wiegand wrote: > >>> I bought the FreeBSD Powerpak and got it installed without any problems. > >>> During the partitioning section I set up a /var partition of 100 megs, a > >>> root partition of 100 megs, and left a couple gigs for /usr, and > >>> entering df on the command line also shows a /proc partition of 4 1-k > >>> blocks. > >>> Here is the output of df - > >> > >> Please don't wrap output, it makes it very difficult to read. > > > Is this regarding the below output? If not, I have netscape mail set to 72 column word wrap, should I change that to > > make it easier to read in other mail programs? I just entered the text as I saw it on the other machine and used tab > > for the spacing. I guess it didn't work like I wanted to. > > It's regarding the paragraph immediately above, as well. It should > look something like: > > > Is this regarding the below output? If not, I have netscape mail set > > to 72 column word wrap, should I change that to make it easier to > > read in other mail programs? I just entered the text as I saw it on > > the other machine and used tab for the spacing. I guess it didn't > > work like I wanted to. > > I don't think there is any program out there which handles word wrap > correctly. It's much more complicated than a normal program can > handle. Turn word wrap off and press Enter at the appropriate time. > Netscape won't help you; in fact, it makes it almost impossible to > send properly formatted mail. See the URL for more details. > > >>> I get a # sign prompt and enter login > >>> I then login as a user, not root, and enter startx. > >> > >> Hmm. Not what you should be doing. You're still in single user mode, > >> and you probably don't have all file systems mounted. > >> > >>> It appears to start but then quits to the command prompt again with the > >>> following messages - > >>> > >>> <complaints omitted> > >> > > > > Sorry if you took this part as complaints, I didn't mean for that > > interpetation, they were the messages from starting kde. > > No, I understood the way you meant it. > > > Once again, thanks for your help. You must be one of very few > > authors that actually read the newsgroups and actually help people. > > :-) > > You're welcome. How can you know what to write if you haven't solved > real-world problems? > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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