From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 22:41:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A474737B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 22:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arpa.com (mail2.arpa.com [207.154.224.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053E743FAF for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 22:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@arpa.com) Received: by arpa.com (Postfix, from userid 1046) id 9FACD201A0; Fri, 2 May 2003 00:41:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 00:41:02 -0500 From: nick nelson To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com> References: <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repartition /tmp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 05:41:03 -0000 On Fri May 02, 2003; 12:30AM -0500 Dan Nelson propagated the following: > > I appeared to have mitakenly made my /tmp partition on this machine > > way too small (missed a 0 completely.). > > > What I end up doing is removing /tmp and symlinking it to /usr/tmp. This sounds like a good idea, however it's not as just deleting it is it? Since it's a partition. It'll give me a 'device busy' error if i try to delete it (as expected.) nick > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com -nick -- nick@arpa.com | arpa.com :: the mainstream runs shallow snelson@valdosta.edu | Office of Information Technology A: Top posters Q: What's the most annoying thing about email these days?