Allan Gottlieb writes:
> I am unable to umount /usr in single user mode on an old system.
> I believe the system is baselayout-1 and is amd64.
> The trouble is open files, at least some of which appear to be related
> to bash and locale (see the files below).
>
> I use grub. On the kernel line can I specify sh instead of bash?
> I know sh is linked to bash, but hope that it will not use locale.
Why not use a live-cd?
> I need to umount /usr so that I can resize it (I use lvm and have
> already extended the logical volume). Specifically i want to execute
> umount /usr
> resize2fs /dev/vg/usr
> mount /usr
As long as you extend the size, resizing works online, without the need to
unmount a partition. That's only necessary when reducing the size. Hooray!
> (I realize I will probably need an e2fsck).
True if the partition is unmounted.
Wonko
