Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:17:02 -0700 From: Jack Verdirame <jackv@netravision.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: symbolic links and /var Message-ID: <00051915254902.00333@sqlczar.netravision.com>
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Hello, I am relatively new the FreeBSD and I am enjoyiing the experience sof far. I ran into a problem with the root volume /- volume is full message. I found out I was suppose to move the /tmp and /var to the /usr volume and create a symbolic link between them. This worked for the tmp directory. What I was doing for the /var directory is the following: mkdir /usr/var cd /var tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) cd / rm -rf /var ln -s /usr/var I go this from the freeBSD book written by Greg Lehey - Excellent Book. Anyway when I do the rm -rf /var it returns a device busy and will not remove the directory. I have gone into single user mode and tried this but the rm command returns the same result. I am logged in as root, also. I did notice there is a var -> /usr/var symbolic link in the var directory. I have tried to remove this but I must be doing something wrong because it won't remove. I do a ln -f /usr/var /var but is say it is not a directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time, Jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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