repartition /tmp?

Eduardo Viruena Silva mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx
Thu May 1 22:44:07 PDT 2003


> On Fri May 02, 2003; 12:30AM -0500 Dan Nelson propagated the following:
>> > I appeared to have mitakenly made my /tmp partition on this machine
>> way too small (missed a 0 completely.).
>> >
>> What I end up doing is removing /tmp and symlinking it to /usr/tmp.
>
> This sounds like a good idea, however it's not as just deleting it is
> it? Since it's a partition. It'll give me a 'device busy' error if i try
> to delete it (as expected.)
>

Restart your computer and go single user.
do it then.


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