From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 16:23:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 16:23:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wlcg.com (mail.wlcg.com [207.226.17.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08E637B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:23:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rsimmons@localhost) by mail.wlcg.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB80NdN13872; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:23:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:23:39 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons To: Christopher Farley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving /tmp In-Reply-To: <20001207181808.A317@northernbrewer.com> 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 I'm assuming that /tmp is in the / partition: boot from floppy, then mount the device that is normally / as /mnt and fix the problem. Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/ On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Christopher Farley wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message