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   Message 29,526 of 29,919   
   William Unruh to faeychild   
   Re: problem with mageia install   
   13 Apr 14 05:17:32   
   
   From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2014-04-13, faeychild  wrote:   
   >   
   >  During the install I omitted to give one of my drives a mount point. It has   
   > been defaulted to  "/tmp" -- not good; it's my data drive.   
      
   You mean you did give it a mount point and it was /tmp (ie you accepted   
   the suggestion that the installation gave you).   
      
   >   
   > I tried to change the mount point through the control centre. This is not   
   > allowed because the file is in use.  I can't close/kill the programs using   
   > it, one of them is kwin.   
      
   /etc/fstab contains the mount points.   
   Change stuff (remove the  mounting on /tmp and add the mounting of that   
   device where you want it) and do   
   mount -a   
   will mount everything in the /etc/fstab. (It will not unmount stuff not   
   there).   
      
   You will not be able to unmount /tmp because it is in use, especially if   
   you have X running.   
      
   To have that dev no longer be used as mount, either reboot (simplest)   
   Kill all   
   X ( eg go to runlevel 3)   
   and find out if anything else has stuff in /tmp open. then umount /tmp   
      
      
      
   >   
   > So I decided to edit mtab.  but is now symlinked to /proc. I can't change it   
   > either.   
      
   mtab is informational anyway.   
      
   >   
   >  A bit of a curly problem. Does anyone have any ideas?   
      
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