On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:04:05AM -0800, Aaron S. Joyner wrote: > Owen Berry wrote: > > >Is it possible to unmount /tmp without booting into a LiveCD of some > >kind? I have it on LVM and have extended the logical volume size, but > >the filesystem is ext3 and the recommendation is to unmount it before > >running resize2fs. > > > >Thanks, > >Owen > > > > > Well you can run `lsof | grep tmp` to see what programs have files open > in tmp. Kill them (if appropriate / possible), then unmount tmp, resize > at will, and then restart the things you killed. Alternatively, comment > it out from /etc/fstab, reboot, resize, uncomment, and run `mount /tmp`. > > Best of luck, > Aaron S. Joyner
Worked like a charm - thanks! Now why didn't I think of that. :-) Owen -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
