From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 06:08:52 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 DE73237B401 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 06:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE19A43FBD for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 06:08:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (adsl-65-68-247-73.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.68.247.73]) by sage-one.net (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with SMTP id h43D8ljm086843; Sat, 3 May 2003 08:08:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20030503080852.01372fe8@sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 08:08:52 -0500 To: Garance A Drosihn , nick nelson From: "Jack L. Stone" In-Reply-To: References: <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com> <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> <20030502054102.GA22505@arpa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=4.5 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.44-sageamerules_v1 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: Sat, 03 May 2003 13:08:53 -0000 At 02:41 AM 5.3.2003 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 12:41 AM -0500 5/2/03, nick nelson wrote: >>On Fri May 02, 2003, 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 [simple 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.) > >I assume you can afford to reboot the machine. > > - Edit /etc/fstab to comment out the entry for /tmp > - Reboot > >You will now have a /tmp directory, and you will not have a >partition mounted over that directory. Move the /tmp directory If I'm following this thread right, why would he need to reboot..?? Couldn't he just do this..? #umount /tmp rm -rf /tmp ln -s /usr/tmp tmp mount /tmp That should do it.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net