On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:54:10AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/3/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote: > >Somewhere in the debian documentation is a warning that after going to > >single-user mode a return to multi-user is not guaranteed to work. > > too bad i'm trying to do all of that without actually rebooting (more > a matter of "because it should be possible" not a requirement) > > >Reboot into single user (with the -s option if there isn't a grub menu > >item already) so that you know noting under /usr is being used, mv /usr > >to /oldusr, fix fstab so that the new usr mounts on /usr, then shutdown > >-r. Of course be careful not to use any binaries that reside under > >/usr. Stick wit straight bash and other stuff under /bin. Use the full > >path to make sure. > > all of this is done and the system already works with the new /usr > mountpoint I'd just like to regain the space without rebooting - to be > honest this is the whole point of this exercise. I've done it before without rebooting, but it was a couple years ago, so don't remember how it went. If you are already working with the new /usr, then maybe lsof | grep oldusr would clue you in to whether you're using anything there. if not, then I say go for it. caveat emptor. A
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