Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!RELAY.CS.NET!ncrlnk.dayton.ncr.com!ncrprt!john From: john%ncrprt@ncrlnk.dayton.ncr.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr Subject: Re: why do the 2.01.01 sa scripts disallow moving /tmp? Message-ID: <381@texbell.swbt.com> Date: 7 Mar 90 23:02:52 GMT Organization: NCR Portugal/Lisbon Lines: 30 Resender: towers@texbell.swbt.com (NCR Tower Mailing List) writes: >I see no reason why the sa scripts should disallow moving /tmp to an >unused partition. As distributed by NCR the script checks a file called >/menu/data/nomvdir.d for directories that cannot be moved. For some >reason /tmp is included in it. In my opinion it often makes sense to >dedicate a partition to /tmp, so I simply edited /menu/data/nomvdir.d, >ran the script again, and since then all seems to be just fine. Some time ago there was a bit of discussion on the Tower Mailling list about this. What happened to a customer here was: after moving /tmp to a partition, a lost+found directory is made. Going multiuser, the /etc/rc script wips out this directory. Starting up after a shutdown, the /etc/bcheckrc script checks the file systems, and one day /tmp fails. He tries to make a repair, but this fails also, because there is no lost+found. That was the scenario. No big deal, if you know whats going on. I suppose changing /etc/rc would clear the situation. john -- J.Pena / SSD Tel: 351-1-539911 NCR Portugal Fax: 351-1-525760 P-1011 Lisbon Codex Email: [uunet!ncrlnk!]ncrprt!john John.Pena@Lisbon.NCR.COM