Just an oddball thought. What if you boot from disk 1 and then don't mount the partitions. IF (and it should be ) diskdrake is there, then you will have no problem with the partitions being mounted.
James On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:16, David Guntner wrote: > I need to unmount my /var filesystem so that I can use diskdrake to resize > it. I've gone to init level 1 (single user mode), which kills all > processes that should be using it (like syslog), but even then, any attempt > to unmount /var gets a "it's busy" message. I don't know *what* it could > be busy with, since the various daemons which log stuff there are shut > down. > > /var is the last filesystem on my disk, and I've got some empty space at > the end of that disk. I want to expand the size of /var to fill that > space. Starting point on the disk will be the same - I don't want to move > it, just resize it to make it a bit bigger. To the best of my knowledge, > you have to unmount a filesystem before you can resize it. So for the > moment, I'm stuck. > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? > > --Dave -- James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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