On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:48 AM, john ingrim <dmparis67 at gmail.com> wrote: > And as I feared, it went pear-shaped. > > I gave the second user root privileges, and the logged in as that user. ?I > deleted the first user, but noticed that his $HOME had not been removed. > > I activated root as a 'normal' user, logged in as root and then tried
the home directory of the "normal" user is not /export/home/john? > > # rm -rf /export/home/john > > I got 'device busy'. ?Huh ??? if your "normal" user 'cd /export/home/john', then su'd and did the rm -rf, it wouldn't work because you're in the directory. > I went down to init -1 and tried again on the console. ?Same story. > I now have a virtually unusable laptop sitting here, and if I have to > reinstall, it's gonna *really* piss me off, as I don't have an external CD > drive, and last time, the colleague who lent me his took ten days to > 'remember' to bring it in, and I had to install OpenSolaris during my lunch > break. you can't use the "normal" user for the time being until you have a better understanding of how to manage users and disk space? > Could someone *please* tell me how to get rid of *ALL* users except root, and > to have *NOTHING* in /export/home, so that I can create a user and start > again? well, I would be surprised if you couldnt, as root, move /export/home/john to /export/home/xjohn and then create your john user id with new directory. Why you have to have nothing in /export/home is a bit ridiculous because it's clear you're not very comfortable managing a *nix system. Move the dir, create your user, go forward. When you get more experience, then clean it up. > > Or do I have to reinstall? you should not have to reinstall
