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From: bing@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM (Bing Bang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Problem with "mount"
Message-ID: <1418@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 13:31:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: galbp.1418
Posted: Thu Aug 27 13:31:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 10:08:03 EDT
References: <4242@ncoast.UUCP> <271NU070156@NDSUVM1>
Reply-To: bing@galbp.UUCP (Bing Bang)
Organization: Harris/Lanier, Atlanta, GA
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In article <271NU070156@NDSUVM1> NU070156@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Glen Overby) writes:
>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.
>     
Am I missing something here? You do know that you can't mount anything to a
directory unless it is completely empty, don't you? Try

rm /tmp/*

then mounting the drive.

I put put into my rc file

touch /tmp/kill_me_now
rm /tmp/*

to make sure /tmp is empty when I boot off my hard disk.

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Bing H. Bang                         +-------------------+
Harris/Lanier                        |MSDOS: just say no.|
Atlanta GA                           +-------------------+