From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2014-04-20, Doug Laidlaw  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   > You need to boot from a Live CD.  It doesn't have to be Mageia, but you can   
   > use the Rescue function on the Mageia DVD.  It is a bit clunky.  Then your   
   > Mageia partitions are not busy.   
      
   No, you do NOT need to boot from a live CD. Just edit /etc/fstab with   
   your favourite editor.   
   unmount /tmp   
   edit /etc/fstab to put in the right mount point for that partition.   
   mount -a   
      
   Do all that as root.   
      
   You are done.   
   Note this will leave you with a disk based /tmp. If you want a ram based   
   (tmpfs) you will also have to put in the appropriate entry for /tmp   
      
      
      
      
   >   
   > Then mount the partition containing /etc/fstab to a mount point somewhere.   
   > A mount point is just any empty directory.  I prefer the /mnt of the liveCD.   
   > (or /media/floppy!)   
   >   
   > Then you can edit fstab to be just how you want it.  You can use /dev/sda??   
   > format for the partitions for now, then use diskdrake to substitute their   
   > UUIDs later.  But watch that both your usual system and the live system   
   > agree on which drive is /dev/sda.   
      
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