Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 02:11:32 -0600 From: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question regarding /var and /tmp Message-ID: <200110310806.f9V86Zl33202@ashram.rhavenn.net> In-Reply-To: <20011030061114.41767.qmail@web14702.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011030061114.41767.qmail@web14702.mail.yahoo.com>
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Yes, that works. Make sure to do the actual changes in single usermode however, including the mv part. On Tuesday 30 October 2001 00:11, Wayne Lubin wrote: > My system is currently set up with only the two file > systems / and /usr. I have a few gigs of spare disk > space that I want to slice up into the /var and the > /tmp file systems. But of course I have been using my > system for a while and so my current /var and /tmp > directories, which are sitting in the / directory > taking up space, have stuff in them. I am assuming > that I can't just mount the /var and /tmp slices that > I want to create because then it would conflict with > the current /var and /tmp directories. So my first > question is, am I correct in this assumption? So > assuming my assumption is correct, I want to run past > you what I am planning to do to pull this off. What I > am planning is to create the two slices but not mount > them as /tmp and /var. Maybe mount them as say /tmp1 > and /var1. And then once my system is booted, mv > everything from /tmp into /tmp1 and everything from > /var into /var1. Finaly delete /var and /tmp and make > changes to fstab to load /tmp1 as /tmp and load /var1 > as /var. So is this the way to do it? Thanks for your > help. > > Wayne > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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