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[ILUG] HD question

[ILUG] HD question

Mark Kilmartin mrk at renre-europe.com
Thu Mar 22 12:08:48 GMT 2001


> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:51:37AM +0000 or thereabouts, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> > > > reboot
> > >   ^^^^^^
> > > 
> > > NO NO NO!
> > > 
> > > umount -a
> > > mount -a
> > Much better I knew I was going to say at least one thing wrong.
> > 
> > I am way to used to doing even small things on a Windoze box.
> > 
> Though as Chris Higgins said, 
> 
> >Except in this case, it's /usr that he's moving - so all of the
> >shared libs etc... are going to be open and active.. the only way
> >to be sure that you are not using anything is /usr is to drop
> >to single user mode...
> >
> >Otherwise your umount will fail..
> >
> >So in this case, a reboot is probably a good thing[tm]...
Also in my case I was also moving and changing / to reiser and putting it
on lmv.





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