On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:33:56AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:34:51PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > I just wanted to experiment with partitions. So, created a 30 MB > > partition, and modified /etc/fstab as > > /dev/hda7 /tmp ext2 defaults 0 0 > > > > And rebooted. Now, mutt, lynx et al couldn't create tmp files, and won't > > budge. What's wrong? I had to revert back, to put /tmp under / partition. > > What's wrong with my setting? Help. > > just a stupid idea, but did you create a filesystem on that new > partition like with: "mke2fs /dev/hda7" ? > This may be a permissions problem. /tmp should be 777 with the sticky bit set, to keep userx from deleting usery's files.
chmod 1777 /tmp Mike
