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From: nu070156@ndsuvm1.bitnet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Problem with "mount"
Message-ID: <271NU070156@NDSUVM1>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 11:41:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 11:41:51 1987
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In article <4242@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>I was using "patch" earlier today, and got an error that I was out of temp file
>space.
     
and tried:
># /etc/mount /dev/hd3 /tmp
>mount: Device busy
># /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.)
     
I ran into the same problem when running patch. But I went one step further:
mv /tmp /otmp
mkdir /tmp
/etc/mount /dev/fd0 /tmp
     
and it worked. My guess is that something (FS, MM, Init, sh) has an
open file on /tmp. I haven't looked into it at all myself.
     
Glen Overby
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