Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!sumax!polari!rwing!seaeast!comcon!tim From: tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Those Pre-Install Blues Summary: killall Message-ID: <539@comcon.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 90 20:58:27 GMT References: <1990Dec5.013027.19510@rice.edu> Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska Lines: 49 In article <1990Dec5.013027.19510@rice.edu>, johnson@horta.rice.edu (Bruce Johnson) writes: > > We just got a model 530 in and appear to have been bitten > by the same "feature" with pre-installed software. Guessing our > way through installation procedures, we hit failures which have > been tracked to this huge /usr partition taking over the 355 MB > (unformatted) disk. The failure turns out to be because the root > partition is full and has nowhere to grow. > > Now what? We have succeeded in getting Wren VII's mounted > on external SCSI, so there is no problem with making a copy of the > entire set of file systems on the 355 if that will help. That is, > we thought it might be possible to reconstruct /usr. But we seem to > not even be able to umount /usr because it is always busy (probably > this pesky errdaemon that runs from there). Is booting from a floppy > the way to do this? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > This should work, run killall as root. Then perform the re-do. -- Tim Brown | Computer Connection | uunet!seaeast.wa.com!comcon!tim |