Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: A few minor questions Message-ID: <13313@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 7 Jan 89 17:09:57 GMT References: <557@gara.une.oz> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 18 As quoted from <557@gara.une.oz> by wtoomey@gara.une.oz (Warren Toomey): +--------------- | Is is possible to mount a floppy/hard disk partition on /tmp? When I | try all I get is a 'mount: Device busy' message. +--------------- I was confused by this for a while as well. However, a look in the sources shows that a directory which is open()'ed cannot be mounted upon... and /etc/update open()'s /tmp to keep the inode in core for fast access. So: either mount /tmp before starting /etc/update in /etc/rc (this is what I do) or kill update, mount it, and restart update. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu ncoast is registering as "ncoast.org" -- watch for the official announcement! Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.