In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ethan Vaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: >> >> Dear debian-users, >> >> The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB >> for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, >> which resides in the root partition, to /var. >> >> This was my plan: >> 1. Copying /tmp to /var/tmp.root (with /var/tmp.root being created) > >Try this: > cp -a /tmp /var > mv /var/tmp /var/tmp.root
Don't do this. /var/tmp already exists, and by doing this you'll remove it, potentially breaking a lot of applications Simply do this: # cd /var # mkdir tmp.root # chown root:root tmp.root # chmod 2777 tmp.root # cd / # rm -rf tmp # ln -s /var/tmp.root tmp Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp Mike.
