On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:08:17 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 December 2005 03:33 pm, michael higgins wrote: > > Some time ago, I moved my /usr/lib folder to a separate partition to > > net some space on /. Now, I want to fix my partitions on that second > > drive, so I've moved all the linux folders to / again. (The /usr/lib > > files are in a folder called /usr/lib2 for now.) > > > > Does anyone know what will happen if I try to > > umount -l, remove the /usr/lib mountpoint, and rename /usr/lib2 to > > /usr/lib? > > Should be fine as long as nothing starts any more processes (that need > libraries in /usr/lib) between the 'umount' and the 'mv'. Also, you > system may still be accessing the partition you've umount-d (since you > used -l) so you really won't be safe modifying it (deleting the > partition, etc.) > > > Any suggestions appreciated. > > You may be able to go down to single user mode with > init 1 > and stop any remaining services, which might free up your /usr/lib. > If that doesn't work you may be able to use 'fuser' to kill the > processes accessing /usr/lib forcefully. You can get a list of the > processes with > fuser -mv /usr/lib > > Altenatively: > mount -o bind / /mnt > rm /mnt/usr/lib > mv /mnt/usr/lib2 /mnt/usr/lib > umount /mnt > vim /etc/fstab > /* Remove the line that mounts /usr/lib */ > > After you reboot the offending partition should no longer be mounted, > but this is really not much better than umount -l. > Well, after all that, it just worked. After stopping the services (named, cupsd, postfix, apache2) the fuser -mv command showed nothing in the way. Unmounted cleanly and moved the folder. Edited fstab, started services, off to the next task: tweaking partitions. I may just be able to use parted now, I think. Thanks for the backup, folks! -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael_higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
