Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 9:55 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 01:02, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Just doing a last check before carrying on with the procedure, > > when I found things that concern me. > > > > /holding has a locked /lost+found directory > > > > Some directory sizes are

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-31 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 01:02, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 1:55 am, Bill Mullen wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > > > > I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it > > > > takes precedence

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 1:55 am, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > > > I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it > > > takes precedence over an existing link, so if the new /usr > > > works, yo

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > > > > I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it takes > > precedence over an existing link, so if the new /usr works, you'll > > have to find a way to unmount the /usr partition, de

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:10, Anne Wilson wrote: > ...> > > risky to do a mv instead of cp. Also, when you finished mounting > > /dev/hde10 you'd end up with /usr/usr, which won't work. > > > Oops - I think I've been unclear again. I meant, once I have > everything in the right place in the new /u

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:15 pm, Stephane Junique wrote: > Hello Anne, > > > > > > telinit 1 > > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What > > can I do about this? > > This is strange, you shold have all the content of /usr copied > ins

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Jan Wilson
* Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030730 14:53]: > > > > telinit 1 > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can > I do about this? That SHOULD have put everything under /usr into /holding ... but if you see /holding/usr/ you can do:

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030730 14:53]: > > > > > telinit 1 > > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What > > can I do about this? > > That SHOULD have put everything under

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:49 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:27, Anne Wilson wrote: > ... > > > > > > telinit 1 > > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What > > can I do about this? > > Check /root/.bash_history -- did

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Stephane Junique
Hello Anne, > > > > telinit 1 > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can > I do about this? This is strange, you shold have all the content of /usr copied inside /holding instead. Are you sure you did cp -a /usr/* /holding/ and not

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:27, Anne Wilson wrote: ... > > > > > > telinit 1 > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can > I do about this? Check /root/.bash_history -- did you miss the slash between usr and *? > > > > > umount /holding

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:56 am, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030729 09:20]: > > > > > > I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of > > > > > > space. My