On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:23:05 +0800, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On a similar light, when I start my box[1] on runlevel 1, and > I try unmounting /usr, umount(8) complains that /usr is busy, > even if there are no processes (other than the shell). My > /etc/fstab has /usr partition mounted with defaults,ro,norecover; > the partition is XFS. you might have some programs (e.g., the shell) that loads libraries that are in /usr/lib or somewhere else in /usr/ maybe even in /usr/local to see what programs are reading what files, use lsof (you have to be root to see everything). grep for what you're looking for. lsof | grep /usb > What can be the problem in this case? (I've had to resort > to booting with 'init=/bin/sh' just so my /usr doesn't get > mounted, and so I can do some maintenance work on /usr). you can also boot into a liveCD (mandrake rescue is what i use, but knoppix and other rescue CDs are fine too) and do the maintenance from there. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Mene sakhet ur-seveh -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
