I'm very confused here. I thought that hda7 was where you wanted your new /home, so why are you trying to umount it?
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Dr. Jones wrote: > I accomplished the goal of moving my /home directory to /dev/hda7. A reboot > and subsequent writes to subdirectories in /home demonstrate that the files > are winding up on /dev/hda7. Here's my dilemma now: Since my /home directory > made the transition over to /dev/hda7, how do I now purge /home on > /dev/hda1? > > 'mout' shows /home mounted on /dev/hda7, and reports that it is busy if I > attempt to 'umount' this point. I want to umount it so that I can then go in > and remove /dev/hda1/home and thus clear the space it now occupies. > > Any suggestions? > > Scott > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "stayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:17 AM > Subject: Re: too small linux partition? > > > > On 09 Feb 2003 22:58:02 -0700, Scott S. Jones D.C. wrote: > > > > >I am trying to find some way to either 1) expand the size of my linux > > >partition dynamically, without destroying the data it contains, or 2) > > >move some of my folders to an alternate partition on my system, where I > > >have room, by creatively using mount and /etc/fstab entries, to point my > > >system to alternate locations. > > > > In the past I have added partitons that I mounted in places like /usr > > and /opt and /home. That usually cleared alot of space. Its a simple > > way to go for now. Just mount the new partition for say /usr under say > > /extra. mv /usr/* /extra. umount /extra and mount the new partition > > as /usr. Really quite simple... > > > > The other option is to get a bigger HD and just move everything > > over.... -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
