Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 10:03:56 -0600 From: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" <charles_dinkey@non.hp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: /var Message-ID: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C531361@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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I belive that if your pwd is /var that rm -rf /var will not work. Try cd /;rm -rf /var and see if that works. Also if /var is a seperate file system (I usually slice out /var) then you will want to unmount it first and remove it's entry from /etc/fstab. Hope this helps... Gene -----Original Message----- From: Adam Hefetz [mailto:adam_hefetz@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 9:58 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /var Hi everyone, I tried to move the /var directory like it says in the file book.txt with the following commands: # mkdir /usr/var # cd /var # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) # cd / # rm -rf /var # ln -s /usr/var /var the problem is that whem I type the rm -rf /var command it says: rm: /var: Device busy I hope you can help me, thanks, Adam ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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
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