Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 09:29:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Adam Hefetz <adam_hefetz@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var Message-ID: <20000509092955.D75157@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000508155751.1245.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <20000508155751.1245.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 15:57:50 +0000, Adam Hefetz wrote: > 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 Looks like you have /var mounted on a separate file system. If you want to keep that file system, you might as well forget copying to /usr. Otherwise umount /var first, then you'll be able to delete it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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