Re: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Wayne Rooney
On Thursday 08 April 2010 09:42:29 Bryce Stenberg wrote: Now when booting I get: mount: mount point /dev/.var/run does not exist montall: mount /var/run [700] terminated with status 32 and mount: mount point /dev/.var/lock does not exist mountall: mount /var/lock [700] terminated with

Re: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Barry
Wayne Rooney wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2010 09:42:29 Bryce Stenberg wrote: Now when booting I get: mount: mount point /dev/.var/run does not exist montall: mount /var/run [700] terminated with status 32 and mount: mount point /dev/.var/lock does not exist mountall: mount /var/lock [700]

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Wayne Rooney [mailto:wroo...@ihug.co.nz] I don't think your /etc/fstab is quite right. Can you post the file so we can see it. Fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Barry [mailto:barr...@paradise.net.nz] Could you move /var to where you want it, /new_pos/var,then make a soft link to it from /var.Then alter fstab to mount the ptn, then reboot I'm not sure I understand - the new partition will mount as /var. What is

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 10:57 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: -Original Message- From: Wayne Rooney [mailto:wroo...@ihug.co.nz] I don't think your /etc/fstab is quite right. Can you post the file so we can see it. Fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. #

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Hadley Rich
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:03 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: The last colum in fstab is marked pass. This defines in what order partitions are mounted. You must mount /var in the first pass, as software needs it there immediately. So change the root and /var pass values to 0 and all should be

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:10 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:03 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: The last colum in fstab is marked pass. This defines in what order partitions are mounted. You must mount /var in the first pass, as software needs it there immediately. So change

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] The last colum in fstab is marked pass. This defines in what order partitions are mounted. You must mount /var in the first pass, as software needs it there immediately. So change the root and /var pass values

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 12:06 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] The last colum in fstab is marked pass. This defines in what order partitions are mounted. You must mount /var in the first pass, as software needs

Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-07 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, Using Ubuntu Server 9.10. Thanks for all the suggestions on moving my /var to another disk last week. I went with a new LV and moved /var to it. Then set the partition to mount as /var in fstab. However, I got errors with /var/lock and /var/run not existing when booting. I googled it and