From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 0: 4:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ashram.rhavenn.net (ashram.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12B937B406 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 00:04:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (9d11fe3b38aaac027acabe4e33aee643@gandalf.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.51]) by ashram.rhavenn.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9V86Zl33202; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:06:35 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200110310806.f9V86Zl33202@ashram.rhavenn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Henrik Hudson Reply-To: lists@rhavenn.net To: Wayne Lubin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question regarding /var and /tmp Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 02:11:32 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20011030061114.41767.qmail@web14702.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011030061114.41767.qmail@web14702.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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