Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!ztivax!yip
From: yip@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Yeung-Cho Ip)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX 1.3 UPGRADE
Message-ID: <604@ztivax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 08:43:03 GMT
References: <2229@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: yip@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Yeung-Cho Ip)
Organization: Siemens AG in Munich, W-Germany
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In article <2229@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes:
>
>       ....
>	Unfortunately my /tmp problems still exist.  While trying
>	to apply the diffs for 1.3, patch told me there was no room
>	on root device.  I have pretty much the original distribution
>	of Minix 1.2 except for /usr being on my hard disk.
>
>	My question is...is there anything I can do short of backing
>	my hard disk up, and changing Minix so root resides on the hard
>	disk? 

>       ... 

If your problem is only running out of /tmp space, I think it can be 
easyly fixed by removing the /tmp directory from the root device, building
a new one and mounting an unused hard disk partition to it. 
This can be done by using the following commands:

	rm -r /tmp
	mkdir /tmp
	mount /dev/hdx /tmp

Unfortunatly I havn't done the 1.3 upgrate yet and so I don't know if
this suggestion solves your problem, but it helped me many times in
similar situations. 

Michael Franzen 

Michael Franzen c/o yip Siemens AG Munich