From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 10:44:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.netidea.com (everest.netidea.com [207.194.161.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C9114C01 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:44:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gregm@netidea.com) Received: from Main (pm162-142.dialup.netidea.com [207.194.162.142]) by everest.netidea.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA08659; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:39:41 -0700 Message-Id: <199904171739.KAA08659@everest.netidea.com> From: gregm@netidea.com To: Doug White Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:43:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: your mail Cc: questions@freebsd.org References: <199904171647.JAA05637@everest.netidea.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks very much ... I apologise for the anomaly in the mail I sent. I'm scripting a "mini-mta" in tcl/tk and obviously have a lot of work to do on it yet. Greg. > Bplease don't bcc: to mailing lists. Thanks. > > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Greg Martin wrote: > > > Reply to:Greg Martin > > Subject: rm /var :/var busy? > > > > I've just installed 2.2.8 and am trying to move /var > > to /usr/var. Each time I get to the point of rm -rf /var > > (from /) but I'm told /var is busy. I've tried as a > > single user and I've tried killing everything in sight > > (I didn't use any options so a few processes resisted) > > but to no avail. I remember when I installed 2.2.6 I had > > to sneak up behind /var but was able to succeed. Any > > suggestions, hints, etc.? > > The system logs, etc. are in use. Shut down to single user mode then do > the move. Note that /var is a mount point, you'll have to unmount the > filesystem instead of rm-ing it. Don't forget to update /etc/fstab! > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message