Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:56:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qpopper Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981015095312.17091C-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <199810151641.JAA25774@srv01.bigwheel.net>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Doug Jolley wrote: > >/var/mail/.username > > Oh. Thanks a batch. > > >What steps are you using when mounting drives in the scenario > >that doesn't work? > > Not to paraphrase any politicians or anything; but, I'm really > glad you asked me that question. I was doing the change in > mounting by changing the /etc/fstab file and re-booting. That > was beacause, much to my surprise, I found that I couldn't > umount either the /var or /usr file systems (or both, I don't > remember). I would get a "device busy" error. I usually > associate that particular error with being logged into the > filesystem that I'm trying to umount; but, I wasn't. I was > logged into the / filesystem. What I wanted to do was to > interactively umount the existing /var and /usr filesystems > and then interactively mount the corresponding file systems > from the primary drive. I'd love to know why I couldn't > umount those file systems. syslogd, sendmail, anything else with a log file in /var/log is potentially keeping /var busy. If you are changing /etc/fstab on the primary drive to mount /var and /usr from the secondary it should work fine, as long as /var and /usr really are populated correctly on the secondary. How'd you make the original image and which tool are you using for the updates? Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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