Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ames!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Problem with "mount" Message-ID: <4242@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 19:27:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4242 Posted: Sun Aug 23 19:27:18 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Aug-87 06:43:41 EDT Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 30 I was using "patch" earlier today, and got an error that I was out of temp file space. Ok, check the source: no way to put the temp files in the current directory. Ok, mount my new 10MB partition on /tmp: # /etc/mount /dev/hd3 /tmp mount: Device busy # _ Huh??? Of course, /etc/mount doesn't maintain an /etc/mtab, so: # /etc/mount /dev/hd3 /user /dev/hd3 mounted # /etc/umount /dev/hd3 # /etc/mount /dev/hd3 /tmp mount: Device busy # _ ??????? The only thing I can come up with is that /tmp is somehow special. Or else /user is somehow special. Anyone know what's going on? (I'm planning on putting my 10MB partition as /usr and the 5MB as /tmp, but this would seem to preclude that possibility.) -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> ** Site "cwruecmp" is changing its name to "mandrill". Please re-address ** *** all mail to ncoast to pass through "mandrill" instead of "cwruecmp". ***