I knew there was a reason I put that note of caution there! Obviously I didn't test it out... yes, you are correct that would indeed delete everything from the old root partition. It should be this instead: # cd /mnt/usr
On Saturday 05 February 2005 12:25 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:10 -0800, Adam Collins wrote: > > 8) Delete the data from the original /usr directory: > > # mount --bind / /mnt > > # cd /mnt > > # rm -rf * <-- careful with this! > > # cd / > > # umount /mnt > > > > From here, you can run "df -h" to show your filesystem usage. That's > > it. > > whoop pull up, isn't this going to delete the whole root dir, therefore > the whole filesystem? > > you bind mount / to /mnt > > then rm'ing whats in /mnt -- [email protected] mailing list
