Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:35:43PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > my reading of man mount suggests that you want > > > > mount --rbind / /mnt > > ---^^^ > > > > but its not very clearly written (IMO) so I suggest you > > touch a dummy

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-04 Thread John L Fjellstad
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my reading of man mount suggests that you want > > mount --rbind / /mnt > ---^^^ > > but its not very clearly written (IMO) so I suggest you > touch a dummy file in the new /usr and double check whether its in > /mnt/usr as a test to confirm

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-04 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, On 5/4/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:58:37PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > I think you can do it without telinit 1. > Try rebinding the / mountpoint somewhere else > mount --bind / /mnt > Then / will be in both / and /mnt > The /mnt/usr

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:58:37PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > "Martin Marcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > of course I'd like to regain the space that the /usr directory on the > > / partition uses. Could I just "telinit 1" umount the /usr mountpoint > > empty out the /usr directory re

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Martin Marcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > of course I'd like to regain the space that the /usr directory on the > / partition uses. Could I just "telinit 1" umount the /usr mountpoint > empty out the /usr directory remount again and telinit 3 back to > normal? I think you can do it without t

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-03 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:54:10AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: On 5/3/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:54:10AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > On 5/3/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 d

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:54:10AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/3/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 tryin

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-03 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 5/3/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:15:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > my setup is in a 30GB partition with LVM on top. > / 1GB > /home 3GB > and a few other non standard mountpoints > > ok i found that although this is just some minimal system for testing > the / partition is to small (more precise

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-02 Thread Bob McGowan
Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, my setup is in a 30GB partition with LVM on top. now i had something like the following initially set up / 1GB /home 3GB and a few other non standard mountpoints ok i found that although this is just some minimal system for testing the / partition is to small (mor

replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-02 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, my setup is in a 30GB partition with LVM on top. now i had something like the following initially set up / 1GB /home 3GB and a few other non standard mountpoints ok i found that although this is just some minimal system for testing the / partition is to small (more precise /usr is eatin