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From: Ryan Rediske <rtr@12-219-189-9.client.mchsi.com>
To: nick nelson <nick@arpa.com>
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Subject: Re: repartition /tmp?
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On Fri, 2 May 2003, nick nelson wrote:

> On Fri May 02, 2003; 12:43AM -0500 Eduardo Viruena Silva propagated the following:
> > > On Fri May 02, 2003; 12:30AM -0500 Dan Nelson propagated the following:
> > >
> > > 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.)
> > >
> >
> > Restart your computer and go single user.
> > do it then.
> >
>
> Tried this, it says Device busy, I did a :
>
> mount -t ufs -a
> swapon -a
>
> Are these two commands ok to do still on a single user mode, or do they affect the deleting of /tmp?

mount -a mounts all in /etc/fstab and since /tmp is in there, you'll mount
it, too. Use:

mount /
mount /usr
... (and whatever else you want to mount EXCEPT for /tmp)

Ryan