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   faeychild to William Unruh   
   Re: problem with mageia install   
   13 Apr 14 21:32:51   
   
   From: faeychild@noname.afraid.org   
      
   William Unruh wrote:   
      
   > 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).   
      
   Yes. That would definitely be the reason   
      
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> 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).   
      
   It worked perfectly.   
      
   All is well.   
      
   It has been quite a while since I delved this deeply into the workings of   
   Linux. I find myself sitting and trying to remember what I used to do and   
   how to get there.   
      
   I need Bit Twisters " brain book"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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