On Mon, March 14, 2005 4:35 pm, Hongwei Li said: >> >> On Mon, March 14, 2005 2:22 pm, Rahul Sundaram said: >>> Hi >>> >>> >>>> My questions are: the partition /tmp is always empty, will that cause >>>> any >>>> potential problem because those folders are missing? >>> >>> No. these are temporary files and you need not worry about them at >>> all. they are periodically cleaned up using tmpwatch and a cron job >> >> That's not entirely accurate. lost+found is usually found when you >> create >> and mount a filesystem at a particular mount point. It's where "found" >> data is placed during an fsck. >> >> The question, for Rahul, is this: Did you create a separate filesystem >> for /tmp, and is it mounted? From your description, I'd say that you >> need >> to: >> >> A) Mount /tmp >> B) Add /tmp to your /etc/fstab file, so that it's mounted on your next >> reboot. >> >> -- >> Mike Burger >> http://www.bubbanfriends.org >> > > Hi Mike, > > The question was actually asked by me. The partition /tmp was created > during the initial installation of fc3 system, and, of cause, it was and > is mounted. It wasn't empty until I ran up2date to update some packages. > I can't say which package update caused this "problem", but I "accidently" > found it became empty after then. Here is my current fstab: > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 > 1 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 > 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 > 0 > LABEL=/home1 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota > 1 2 > LABEL=/opt /opt ext3 defaults 1 > 2 > none /proc proc defaults 0 > 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 > 0 > LABEL=/tmp1 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 > 2 > LABEL=/usr1 /usr ext3 defaults 1 > 2 > LABEL=/var1 /var ext3 defaults,usrquota > 1 2 > ... > > The system log does not show any message related to /tmp, "good" or "bad". > > When I try to umount /tmp, it says: > > # umount /tmp > umount: /tmp: device is busy > umount: /tmp: device is busy > > I restarted the system several times, /tmp is still empty. > Any idea why /tmp could "lose" all of its folders? Do I need to "fix" it? > > Thanks! The only thing I might suggest, if your /tmp is a mounted filesystem and is empty, is to check your tmpwatch settings. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
