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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:38:31 +0000, Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >dave morgan wrote: >> hi, >> >> Having a spare partition on one of my drives I >> modified (in single user mode) /etc/fstab so it >> looked like this: >> >> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. >> # >> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> >> <pass> >> /dev/hde3 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 >> 1 >> /dev/hde2 none swap sw,pri=5 0 >> 0 >> /dev/hda3 none swap sw,pri=5 0 >> 0 >> /dev/hda4 /mp3 ext2 defaults 0 >> 2 >> #/dev/hda2 /tmp ext2 defaults 0 >> 2 >> proc /proc proc defaults 0 >> 0 >> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 >> 0 >> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 >> 0 >> /dev/hde1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 >> 2 >> >> >> If I uncomment the line that mounts /tmp, then after rebooting and >> logging into KDE, it immediately dumps me back to the KDE login >> prompt again ! the partition is approx 20Gb, it used to >> be my old root on a previous installation. >> >> It took the reboot 15mins to get past the 'clearing /tmp' line >> the first time (wiping out my old system) ! >> >> Any ideas what causes KDE not to like having this separate /tmp >> partition, where to look for error messages ? >> >> best regards >> dave morgan >> >Unsure, I had this problem with Gnome ages back... IF you copy the files >from the old /tmp to the new /tmp (ie a temporary mount of the >partitioned /tmp to /mnt then cp -R /tmp* /mnt) does that work ? > >Neil >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE+JGc3ETbMU8Wu6mERAi5kAJ4rkvd/pp2K/AcL/FmYP2+nSNmDvACgg3so >I9t0HQF8F4t8wFsHsm1cfeU= >=YqEl >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Tried this, no difference at all ! any ideas where to look for error logs ? I am assuming having separate /tmp partition directly mounted is legal ! best regards dave morgan -- http://www.eclipse.co.uk/morgad/index.html UKRA#1243 from address killfiled. use reply-to address for replies ! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.