Safe to remount live partition?

[Stephen P Rufle]

If you have good backups you can tell us if its safe after you have done
it. I never trust computers.

:)


Dayley, Alan wrote:
> So, I need to remount the file system at /var with the user_xattr
> option.  /var contains Samba shares, internal web sites, and other
> priceless data.  Oh, and LVM is involved here.
> 
> Is it safe to issue "mount -o remount,user_xattr
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol04" while in live use?
> 
> Color me skeptical.
> 
> Alan
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