| 1 |
Allan Gottlieb writes: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> I am unable to umount /usr in single user mode on an old system. |
| 4 |
> I believe the system is baselayout-1 and is amd64. |
| 5 |
> The trouble is open files, at least some of which appear to be related |
| 6 |
> to bash and locale (see the files below). |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> I use grub. On the kernel line can I specify sh instead of bash? |
| 9 |
> I know sh is linked to bash, but hope that it will not use locale. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
Why not use a live-cd? |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
> I need to umount /usr so that I can resize it (I use lvm and have |
| 14 |
> already extended the logical volume). Specifically i want to execute |
| 15 |
> umount /usr |
| 16 |
> resize2fs /dev/vg/usr |
| 17 |
> mount /usr |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
As long as you extend the size, resizing works online, without the need to |
| 20 |
unmount a partition. That's only necessary when reducing the size. Hooray! |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
> (I realize I will probably need an e2fsck). |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
True if the partition is unmounted. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
Wonko |
Archives