On Sun, 2019-08-18 at 08:06 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 17Aug2019 12:01, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 09:38 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > Really, all you need to do is to remove the /var fstab entry, umount > > > the > > > existing /var mount, rsync /newvar BACK INTO the stub /var mountpoint > > > which is there, scrub /newvar. > > > > /var cannot be unmounted while the system is running (see above). > > "umount -l /var" is your friend. See "man 8 umount".
Nice, I hadn't known about that. > You could (roughly): > > mkdir /newvar > rsync -a /var/ /newvar/ # note trailing slashes > umount -l /var > rmdir /var > mv /newvar /var > > and scrub the fstab entry. Then reboot to make everything use the new > tree. I'll keep it in mind for next time (there's always a next time). Cheers poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
