> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:51:39 -0800 Mark Post wrote: (with several cuts) >- Unmount the file system This is at the heart of the issue - many of the Linux filesystems/directories do not seem to unmount, eg:
vmlxtst5:/# umount /opt umount: /opt: device is busy Hence my wish to find an approach that did not require an unmount. >Most likely. Are you running z/VM, or is this in an LPAR? (Please let it be on z/VM...) Yes, z/VM indeed. >You can get an idea of what's involved at >http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/movefs.html You'll need to mentally adjust for >some relatively small differences between breaking a file system out of the >root file system, and just copying one to another piece of disk. OK. Copy the filesystem to a new smaller one and then point to that. Again, for filesystems that will not unmount, I will need to reboot and hope for the best, no? Regards, Fred Schmidt Department of Corporate and Information Services (DCIS) Data Centre Services (DCS) Northern Territory Government, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
