On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > If I understand you, when I mount the new /usr, the directory /usr under > / will be ignored (after a reboot?). But then when I remove the /usr > directory, the system will temporarily not be able to see any /usr until > I remount the new one. Right?
No rebooting necessary (remember, you did a "telinit 1" to start off with, and are in single-user mode here). Once you mount the "new" /usr partition over the "old" /usr directory, the files which are still in that directory are no longer visible to the system. As Jack said, you would then issue "telinit 5" to return to run level 5 and test everything out. When you're ready to delete the old files, you just return to run level 1 (where /usr is not in use, when you're merely sitting at the bash prompt), unmount the "new" /usr partition, clean out the "old" /usr dir that was "beneath" it, and remount the "new" /usr. You will then return, once and for all, to run level 5 with "telinit 5". And yes, for a second or two there you will have no /usr mounted, but that's not a problem at all if you follow those steps exactly as Jack wrote them; the only command you're running with an empty /usr directory is "mount", and it lives in /bin. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley
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