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, you'll have to find a way to unmount the /usr partition, > > > delete what is in the /usr partition under / (and probably that > > > /usr directory also) and then remount your partition that holds > > > the stuff from /usr. > > > > Since by this time the new /usr will be mounted, are you saying > > that I won't be able to see the original /usr? If it's still > > there as a directory, can't I just delete the directory once I'm > > sure everything is ok? > > Sorry to vanish on you, had to get some sleep. ;) > These time differences make conversations rather protracted, don't they?
> Jan is incorrect only in that you do not delete the "old" /usr > *directory* but only its contents - you still need the empty > directory to serve as the mount point for the partition that now > contains the /usr files. This is the same principle that is at work > when you find that you cannot mount a floppy as "/mnt/floppy" if > the /mnt/floppy directory does not already exist. That's why Jack's > instructions called for unmounting the "new" /usr partition, then > deleting the contents of the "old" /usr directory (but not the > directory itself), then remounting the /usr partition. You'll > recall that this is done in single-user mode, where nothing in /usr > is actively in use (so unmounting/remounting it is therefore > possible). 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 not identical with their /usr sources: /bin - old 44.0 KB, new 36 KB /include - old 16 KB, new 12 KB /lib - old 44 KB, new 40 KB The contents of /bin, in both cases shows 1956 items - 1955 files (135.8 MB Total) /include and /lib appear to be equally matched, so what exactly is being reported by these differences? Anne
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