repartition /tmp?

[Eduardo Viruena Silva]

On Fri, 2 May 2003, nick nelson wrote:

> On Fri May 02, 2003; 12:43AM -0500 Eduardo Viruena Silva propagated the following:
> > > On Fri May 02, 2003; 12:30AM -0500 Dan Nelson propagated the following:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
>
> Tried this, it says Device busy, I did a :
>
> mount -t ufs -a
> swapon -a


no, you must not mount everything  [option -a in mount, above].

mount /
mount /usr
mount /var
swapon -a

and then:

rm -r  /tmp
ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp

and, of course, delete [or comment out] the line in your
/etc/fstab file that mounts your /tmp

and then, reboot your computer.



>
> Are these two commands ok to do still on a single user mode, or do they affect the deleting of /tmp?
>
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