disk upgrade 2003-08-26 - By Steven J. Yellin
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Chris Swenson wrote:
> I have almost run out of room on my /var partition. I installed a new disk,
> mounted and formated it as /var1. I dropped to run level one, backed up var
> to tape, rolled it out to the new disk. All permissions are correct and so
> forth.
>
> I cannot umount the var partition. I tried booting with a floppy, and some
> other things, but no luck. I tried a few variations in the fstab, but no
> luck. It still insists it has files in use.
>
> I obviously need to do a mv of var1 to var, but I am missing something in my
> logic here.
>
I don't understand the problem. When you reboot, by toggling the
power switch if necessary, all partitions start off unmounted; so there
can be no problem with "files in use". Right now you mount the old
partition on /var and the new one on /var1. If you change fstab so that
it mounts the new partition on /var and mounts the old partition on /var1,
instead of the other way around, the next time you boot everything should
be as you want it.
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Steven Yellin
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