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Hi! I got tired of running out of disk space on the different partitions on my Solaris 8 Ultra 5 computer so I tried to make just a big / partition and install everything on that. But somehow I managed to get a 0 byte /home partition :-) I tried to delete this (By just clicking it in X-Windows and pressing delete) and make a new folder in / called home and use this instead. This worked fine until I restarted the computer. Then somehow the old 0 byte /home had returned and my own /home was gone.

Does anybody know how to delete this 0 byte /home permanently so that I can create my own /home again.

I heard I need to edit some partition file some ware but I'm not sure how.

Can anybody help me?

Best regards,
Anders Windelhed

Just remove the info for /home from /etc/vfstab

Hum... Maybe that's not the problem. I opened the /etc/vfstab file and it said nothing about /home. df -k doesn't either say anything about /home but I still cant create any directories in /home or remove it with rmdir.

What do you think?

$ pwd
/home
$ df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 8565372 1038684 7441035 13% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 258896 8 258888 1% /var/run
swap 284232 25344 258888 9% /tmp
$ mkdir test
mkdir: Failed to make directory "test"; Operation not applicable
$ ls
$ rmdir /home
rmdir: directory "/home": Directory is a mount point or in use
$


/etc/vfstab

#device device mount FS fsck mount mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
#
#/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usr ufs 1 yes -
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 / ufs 1 no
-
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -

can you

umount /home
then delete the 0 byte partition using

format

???

I tried to type “umount /home” and then my “self made” /home with my own user dir returnet! :-) but as soon as I restart the computer the empty read-only undeletable /home returns!

How do I use format to delete this unusable /home?

You are running the automounter and you have a /home entry in /etc/auto_master. Turn off the automounter or at least remove the offending entry.

Thanks!

I just put a # infront of /home in /etc/auto_master and now everything works fine!

Maximum respect!