From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 16:18:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 16:18:10 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D32637B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:18:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 93CB917422; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:18:08 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:18:08 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: moving /tmp Message-ID: <20001207181808.A317@northernbrewer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: chris@nbrewer.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today I decided to move /tmp from the root filesystem to /usr/tmp. I did this because I got a "filesystem full" message after mutt tried to close a very large mbox. I decided that /tmp should be a symlink to /usr/tmp... Here's what I did: # cd / # cp tmp /usr # mv tmp tmp.old # ln -s /usr/tmp tmp Unfortunately, I did not boot into single user mode; in fact, I did this within XWindows. Sure it seems like a stupid thing now... Of course, my X session got a little flaky on me. After a reboot, I am now unable to run startx. The screen goes black, the keyboard shuts off... How do I begin to clean up my mess?? -- Christopher Farley Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message