Scott H wrote:
>
> I have a RH 7.3 box with a portion of the
> partition table resembling this:
>
> /dev/ida/c0d0p2 mounted at /
> /dev/ida/c0d0p6 mounted at /var/spool
>
> I want to reclaim the /var/spool partition for
> other uses. So I copy the contents of it to
> /var/spool2 and edit /etc/fstab to remove the
> mount of /var/spool at boot time. Now how do I
> get spool2 renamed to spool so when it reboots
> spool will be on partition c0c0p2, under / , and
> c0d0p6 will be unused, so I can work with it? (I
> can't umount /var/spool, the device is always "in
> use". At least I can't find what is holding on
> to it. I shut down mail programs and anacron and
> I'm not in the directory...
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Scott
>
> .
Use the rescue disk and mount your filesystems under /mnt. This uses a
ramdisk so your hard drive is completely untouched. I migrated an
antire disk this way - /usr, /var, /boot, and /.
George
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