repartition /tmp?

[Eduardo Viruena Silva]

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Jack L. Stone wrote:

> At 02:41 AM 5.3.2003 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >At 12:41 AM -0500 5/2/03, nick nelson wrote:
> >>On Fri May 02, 2003, 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 [simple 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.)
> >
> >I assume you can afford to reboot the machine.
> >
> >  - Edit /etc/fstab to comment out the entry for /tmp
> >  - Reboot
> >
> >You will now have a /tmp directory, and you will not have a
> >partition mounted over that directory.  Move the /tmp directory
>
> If I'm following this thread right, why would he need to reboot..??
>
> Couldn't he just do this..?
> #umount /tmp
> rm -rf /tmp
> ln -s /usr/tmp tmp
> mount /tmp
>
> That should do it....

yes, I believe they just want to check if there'd be no problem
in a future boot.

>
> Best regards,
> Jack L. Stone,
> Administrator
>
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