From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 27 23: 2:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C193A37B405 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 94680 invoked by uid 100); 28 Jul 2001 06:02:24 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15202.21872.124710.263609@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:02:24 -0500 To: Walter Betancourt Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tmp and var to usr/tmp and usr/var In-Reply-To: <24032536@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Walter Betancourt types: > Hi all, > > can someone get me out of this cage, > > trying to make /usr/tmp and /usr/var and remove /tmp and /var then link to > /usr/tmp and /usr/var > > can create /usr/tmp and /usr/var ok and move /var contents to /usr/var ok > > trying to rm -rf /tmp or /var gets 'device busy' > > tried single user mode, > > get 'file system read only' > > tried /mount -u / > > can then remove /var and /tmp and ln -s to /usr/var and /usr/tmp > > but then cant get out of this mode. What have you tried to get out of single user mode? reboot should work. Exiting the current shell should also work without reloading the kernel. If you've tried those and they don't work, what happens and what error messages do you get. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message