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" ? -- groetjes, carel