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| Madhusudan Singh 2005-08-21, 5:46 pm |
| If I copy all the stuff over to some other partition to backup and then try
to unmount it (before mkfs) :
# umount /var
umount: /var: device is busy
umount: /var: device is busy
-f switch does not work either.
So, how do I reformat var here (which is reiserfs) to make it ext3 ?
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| Amarok 2005-08-21, 5:46 pm |
| Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> If I copy all the stuff over to some other partition to backup and then
> try to unmount it (before mkfs) :
>
> # umount /var
> umount: /var: device is busy
> umount: /var: device is busy
>
> -f switch does not work either.
>
> So, how do I reformat var here (which is reiserfs) to make it ext3 ?
Do it with a live-cd like knoppix
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| wittempj@hotmail.com 2005-08-21, 5:46 pm |
| Move it physically to another partition, then make your reiserfs an
ext3 fs - and then move it back?
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| Dave Uhring 2005-08-21, 8:45 pm |
| On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:40:58 -0400, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> If I copy all the stuff over to some other partition to backup and then try
> to unmount it (before mkfs) :
>
> # umount /var
> umount: /var: device is busy
> umount: /var: device is busy
>
> -f switch does not work either.
>
> So, how do I reformat var here (which is reiserfs) to make it ext3 ?
By booting from CD.
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| Madhusudan Singh 2005-08-21, 8:45 pm |
| wittempj@hotmail.com wrote:
> Move it physically to another partition, then make your reiserfs an
> ext3 fs - and then move it back?
How does one do that ?
There can be only one var under /, remember ?
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| Alan Connor 2005-08-21, 8:45 pm |
| On comp.os.linux.misc, in
<430902cd$0$18649$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, "Madhusudan Singh"
wrote:
> If I copy all the stuff over to some other partition to backup
> and then try to unmount it (before mkfs) :
>
> # umount /var umount: /var: device is busy umount: /var: device
> is busy
>
> -f switch does not work either.
>
> So, how do I reformat var here (which is reiserfs) to make it
> ext3 ?
Use a rescue disk or remove the /etc/fstab entry for /var
and reboot?
(can you even boot without var?)
AC
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| Toby Inkster 2005-08-22, 7:46 am |
| Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> # umount /var
> umount: /var: device is busy
> umount: /var: device is busy
>
> -f switch does not work either.
"umount -fl" might do it, but you'll probably crash a few processes by
formatting /var.
--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
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| Alan Connor wrote:
> On comp.os.linux.misc, in
> <430902cd$0$18649$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, "Madhusudan Singh"
> wrote:
>
>
> Use a rescue disk or remove the /etc/fstab entry for /var
> and reboot?
>
> (can you even boot without var?)
>
yes you can, using -b as flag to the boot parameters ( single user ).
all you need to do basically is going down to single user and then
unmount/reformat /var . this is done with "init 1" or "init s" depending on
your setup. don't need rescue cd's doing that
hope that helped,
--
acd
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| Alan Connor 2005-08-22, 5:52 pm |
| On comp.os.linux.misc, in <4309e2b2@nntp.zianet.com>, "acd"
wrote:
(Earthlink's newsserver doesn't carry alt.os.linux.debian.)
> Alan Connor wrote:
>
>
> yes you can, using -b as flag to the boot parameters ( single
> user ). all you need to do basically is going down to single
> user and then unmount/reformat /var . this is done with "init
> 1" or "init s" depending on your setup. don't need rescue cd's
> doing that hope that helped,
> -- acd
Thanks a lot,
AC
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| Alan Connor 2005-08-22, 5:52 pm |
| On alt.os.linux.debian, in <3erOe.178$Mb5.59@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Alan Connor" wrote:
>
> On comp.os.linux.misc, in <4309e2b2@nntp.zianet.com>, "acd"
> wrote:
>
> (Earthlink's newsserver doesn't carry alt.os.linux.debian.)
>
I was wrong about the above. My list is out-of-date. Sorry.
<snip>
AC
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