topic Re: two /tmp directories in Operating System - HP-UX

two /tmp directories

Sp4admin — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:20:21 GMT

Hello,

I have problem. I may a rookie move and now have two /tmp directories mount. one is /dev/vg00/lvol4 and the other one is /dev/vg00/lvol10. My plan was to comment out the old /tmp which is lvol4 and mount the new one on lvl10. I have made the change in the fstab. buy I ran a mount -o remounr /tmp. this just remouted the second /tmp directory. I was trying to avoid a reboot.

o/s 11.1

Thanks in Advance
sp,

Re: two /tmp directories

Paul Sperry — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:23:29 GMT

I have done this before and always had to reboot. Dont forget to clean up the unused space form the old /tmp when your finished.

Re: two /tmp directories

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:25:06 GMT

Shalom,

Any solution is likely to disrupt normal system use since /tmp is used for many processes.

fuser -cuk /tmp

Then try umount then mount no mount -o tricks.

I think however that reboot is nearly inevitable.

SEP

Re: two /tmp directories

Pete Randall — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:28:12 GMT

I believe what you've done is mounted /dev/vg00/lvol10 as /tmp, replacing /dev/vg00lvol4. If you want to have them both mounted at the same time, make a new mount point, such as /newtmp, them "mount /dev/vg00/lvol10 /newtmp" and "mount /dev/vg00/lvol4 /tmp". When you're ready to switch over, just "mount /dev/vg00/lvol10 /tmp". You'll have to unmount first. To make the change permanent, edit /etc/fstab accordingly.

Pete

Re: two /tmp directories

Sp4admin — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:32:17 GMT

Thanks!

I think I will go for the reboot option.

Thanks,
sp,

Re: two /tmp directories

Sp4admin — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:35:03 GMT

Thanks for the advice.