From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2014-04-13, Bobbie Sellers  wrote:   
   > On 04/12/2014 09:25 PM, 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.   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >> So I decided to edit mtab.  but is now symlinked to /proc. I can't change it   
   >> either.   
   >>   
   >>   A bit of a curly problem. Does anyone have any ideas?   
   >>   
   >   
   > 	Boot up with a rescue disk or flash drive such as Knoppix and use the   
   > partition editor to correct your error,   
   >    	If you are using Mandriva and can assign /tmp to another partition   
   > it should move the content of /tmp to   
   > that new partition but it may take a while to do that while booting   
   > up.   
      
   /tmp has nothing in it that needs to be there. thus by default, unless   
   you assign a device to /tmp, /tmp with be a ram based directory (tmpfs)   
   and will be completely erased on every boot.   
      
   > 	I happen to know about the copying to the assigned drive   
   > because I used Mandriva to create various partitions after I made   
   > a similar error and was surprised at the automatic copying.  I had   
   > expected to be working on that myself.   
      
   ??? There is no automatic copying. Not sure what you mean.   
      
   > 	You should be able to correct even the bad files from a   
   > rescue system like Knoppix,  Takes some patience to be sure you   
   > are working in the right directories and partitions.   
      
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