[CS-FSLUG] test

[Nicholas Donato]

Thanks David,

That was what I was thinking about trying, but I was concerned that
/home might have some special properties that would cause this not to
work.  It did work!  :)  Thanks for the suggestion.

On 11/18/05, David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/05, Nicholas Donato <ndonato at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As you can see, hda6, the large partition I had intended for home
> > directories, was not mounted correctly.  I dunno why, but it wasn't.
> > At any rate I edited the files to mount the home directories in the
> > right place (/devhda6  /home), but I neglected to move or delete the
> > 2-3 GBs of files that had been mistakenly placed in the old home
> > directories, mounted off of the 6.? root file system.
> >
> > Sorry it took me sooooo long to get to it, but here is the question.
> > How can I reclaim all of the space in the root file system (partition
> > hda1)?
>
> You could temporarily unmount the partition containing the new home
> directories, and then hopefully you'll have access to the old.  (You
> could temporarily mount the partition intended for /home at a
> different mountpoint if you wish to copy the files instead of deleting
> them).  For this, you'll basically need need to ensure that the only
> user logged in is root, otherwise you probably won't be able to
> unmount your new /home directories.  Basically, login as root, execute
> "umount /home", and you should be able to see the old files.
>
> Alternatively, you could use a live CD to access your partitions, and
> then delete the files (I think that Knoppix auto-creates icons on the
> desktop for each partition it detects).
>
> Hope this helps,
> David Aikema
>
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