From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 9: 4:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786DA37B96B for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charles_dinkey@non.hp.com) Received: from xboibrg2.boi.hp.com (xboibrg2.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.172]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D1D5C4 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by xboibrg2.boi.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 8 May 2000 10:03:58 -0600 Message-ID: From: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: /var Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 10:03:56 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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