how to unmount /var

[John Thompson]

On 2008-02-17, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:

> I have done some mistakes while partitioning my HD and /var is too small.
>
> Fortunately, I use lvm... unfortunately I have to unmount /var before
> resizing and so many apps use /var....
>
> What is the strategy to do this.

Shutdown and boot from a live CD (e.g. "System Rescue CD" 
http://www.sysresccd.org/) and do your repartitioning from there.

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John (john at os2.dhs.org)