too small linux partition?

[Tim Wunder]

On 2/11/2003 8:37 AM, someone claiming to be Dr. Jones wrote:
> Stayler:
> 
> 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?
> 
<snip>

Boot into single user mode, as root.
You should then be able to umount /home since root's home directory is 
/root.

HTH,
Tim