From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jul 27 03:10:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA25540 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 03:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrick.interlog.com (patrick.interlog.com [206.108.68.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA25535 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 03:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (patrick@localhost) by patrick.interlog.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA02296; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 06:10:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: patrick.interlog.com: patrick owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 06:10:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick McConnell To: Kevin Peteron cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Busy In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970727014647.009de630@mail.hughes.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Kevin Peteron wrote: > rm -rf /var > > When get to this point it returns -- (Device Busy) /var must be a partition, then, as it is by default. A clean way to do this might be to comment out the entry for /var in /etc/fstab and reboot. Then you can remove /var and create the symbolic link. You might want to do these last two steps in a startup script so as to not suffer problems due to the temporary lack of /var. Patrick -- Patrick McConnell (patrick@interlog.com) Finger info: http://www.interlog.com/~patrick/finger "640k ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, 1981