too small linux partition?

[Net Llama!]

I'm very confused here.  I thought that hda7 was where you wanted your new
/home, so why are you trying to umount it?

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Dr. Jones wrote:
> I accomplished the goal of moving my /home directory to /dev/hda7. A reboot
> and subsequent writes to subdirectories in /home demonstrate that the files
> are winding up on /dev/hda7. Here's my dilemma now: Since my /home directory
> made the transition over to /dev/hda7, how do I now purge /home on
> /dev/hda1?
>
> 'mout' shows /home mounted on /dev/hda7, and reports that it is busy if I
> attempt to 'umount' this point. I want to umount it so that I can then go in
> and remove /dev/hda1/home and thus clear the space it now occupies.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "stayler" <stayler at xmtservices.net>
> To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:17 AM
> Subject: Re: too small linux partition?
>
>
> > On 09 Feb 2003 22:58:02 -0700, Scott S. Jones D.C. wrote:
> >
> > >I am trying to find some way to either 1) expand the size of my linux
> > >partition dynamically, without destroying the data it contains, or 2)
> > >move some of my folders to an alternate partition on my system, where I
> > >have room, by creatively using mount and /etc/fstab entries, to point my
> > >system to alternate locations.
> >
> > In the past I have added partitons that I mounted in places like /usr
> > and /opt and /home.  That usually cleared alot of space.  Its a simple
> > way to go for now.  Just mount the new partition for say /usr under say
> > /extra.  mv /usr/* /extra.  umount /extra and mount the new partition
> > as /usr.  Really quite simple...
> >
> > The other option is to get a bigger HD and just move everything
> > over....

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