On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:58:37PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > "Martin Marcher" <martin.marcher@gmail.com> writes: > > > of course I'd like to regain the space that the /usr directory on the > > / partition uses. Could I just "telinit 1" umount the /usr mountpoint > > empty out the /usr directory remount again and telinit 3 back to > > normal? > > I think you can do it without telinit 1. > Try rebinding the / mountpoint somewhere else > mount --bind / /mnt > Then / will be in both / and /mnt > The /mnt/usr should be your original /usr. Delete that directory, and > unmount /mnt > > Theoretically, this should work, but I haven't tried it. my reading of man mount suggests that you want mount --rbind / /mnt -------^^^ but its not very clearly written (IMO) so I suggest you touch a dummy file in the new /usr and double check whether its in /mnt/usr as a test to confirm that the mount of new /usr doesn't carry over. A
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