[ale] backing up /var -POSTGRES & LABEL

Jim ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Thu Feb 22 10:28:41 EST 2007


Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 1. Even in single user mode ( init 1) /var would not unmount, said it was busy 
> ( postgres active??) I didn't know what to do. so I could not rename it, to 
> move it to the new drive. Question, how would I know why /var was busy, and 
> how would I stop postgres?
>
>   
As someone suggested before, if booting single doesn't work, boot a 
rescue disk, like Knopix and work from there.  Guaranteed /var isn't 
mounted that way.

E2label is also an option to inspect/set labels.

Jim.



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