From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 15:28:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01866 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01795 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:28:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17668; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:28:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Natalie Bales cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing and configuring, help! In-Reply-To: <35255350.75C2@globalsite.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Natalie Bales wrote: > We are NEWBIES and we are trying to install and configure FreeBSD. I > was reading the installation manual going through everything step. The > manual suggested to move /var to /usr/var. I copied the /var directory > to /usr/var and then tried to remove /var from the root directory. I > can not successfully remove /var. Moving /var to /usr/var may not be such a great idea since in the default setup /var is it's own partition. You'll waste the space unless you remount it somewhere eles.e > I continue to get an error saying > > rm: /var: Device busy. /var is a mountpoint, so to get rid of it you need to run `umount /var'. I would suggest mounting that partition elsewhere, like on /tmp. Modify /etc/fstab and change the reference to /var to /tmp, and reboot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message