Hi Siju, On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:41:17PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Thankyou so much Ionut for the continuing help :-) You're welcome :-) Playing around with partition tables is one of my favourites. > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> > <pass> > /dev/hda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/hda3 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda6 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda7 /var/log ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2 > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 61 489951 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 62 365 2441880 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda3 366 3404 24410767+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 3405 4870 11775645 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 3405 3647 1951866 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 3648 3890 1951866 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 3891 3914 192748+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 3915 4870 7679038+ 83 Linux I was hoping for an unsorted partition table, but unfortunately you cannot glue /var and /var/log together because they're too far away. And moving /home is quite risky (I think it's possible with dd, but I haven't tried it yet) Now: is this a server? you have a huuuuge /var! I would just move /var/log to /var and glue /dev/hda7 to /dev/hda6 if this is a server how it seems. Or, move /var/log and /tmp to /var (don't forget ln -s /var/tmp /tmp) and then glue /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7 to /dev/hda5 > > meanwhile I tried your steps on a similar but got stuck here > > # umount log > umount: /var/log: device is busy hmm, this shouldn't be the case in single user mode, but anyway, try init 1 to make sure. then: ps aux and see what processes are running. try kill -15 PID If they're still there, than trash them :-) kill -9 PID you could also try lsof | grep /var/log to see who's writing to /var/log Hope it helps. Ionut -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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