On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:54:57PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > I made a new partition for /var/cache since that's where all my data is. > > Unfortunately /var is still counting the contents of /var/cache and thinks > > that /var is full. I'm not sure how to tell /var that it doesn't hold > > /var/cache anymore. > [snip] > > Emma - > > Did you delete the contents of /var before mounting the new > /var/cache directory on top of it?
You don't want to delete all of /var if you're only moving /var/cache ... > > I'm _not_ suggesting you just do > > # umount /var/cache > # rm /var/cache Not quite - rm won't remove a directory, and you don't want to anyway. "rm /var/cache/*" might be more useful. > # mount /var/cache > > but that would solve it. > Make sure you know what each of these steps does before trying it! Good plan :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
