too small linux partition?

[Ben Duncan]

Which means his fstab MOUNTED /dev/hda7 OVER the existing /home 
directory .. so ...
he NOW has occupied space, but cannot get to it ....

You a re going to have to get into SINGle user mode (init 1 or init s)
then do the unmount ...... when that is done, then cd into /home. There
you will find the files/dir's you need to remove ....

DO NOT remove the directory /home ...

OR

Boot into single user mode, unmount /dev/dha7.

mv /home /<whatever>
mkdir /home
chmod 777 (or your choice of poison here) /home
then you will have OLD home called <whatever> and the new home ...

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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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