Re: RO /usr

[Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki@ull.at>]

Hi!

On Thu May 22, 2003 at 03:13:25PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> mount: /usr is busy
> E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke 'mount -o remount,ro /usr'
> 
> Because the system has worked with a ro /usr, nothing should be
> accessing /usr to write, how wan I 'free' /usr', just the time needed
> for the remount ?

# lsof +L1

lsof(1):
A specification of the form ``+L1'' will select open files that have
been unlinked.

This shows you the deleted libraries which are still in use after the
upgrade. Normally system daemons refer to them. A simple restart of the
daemon which uses the deleted library let's you remount your /usr ro.

so long
Thomas

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