Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!mindcraft.com!karish
From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Compressing /usr Filesystem
Message-ID: <662843965.4442@mindcraft.com>
Date: 2 Jan 91 19:19:23 GMT
References: <295@bria.AIX> <1991Jan2.135319.18477@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
Lines: 22

In article <1991Jan2.135319.18477@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
lab3e@landau5.phys.virginia.edu (Louis A. Bloomfield) writes:
>A number of individuals have noted difficulty in removing /usr in order
>to compress that filesystem.  The reason /usr won't umount is that the
>Korn Shell is holding on to it.

Not on my systems.  It's always /usr/lib/errdemon.

>2) set root to use csh (not ksh) and logged in as root

Put root's history file somewhere outside /usr and this shouldn't
be necessary.

>3) telinit 1
>4) killall -

This doesn't kill the errdemon process.  When I wanted to unmount
/usr last (to run fsck) I booted from diskettes.
-- 

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
	Mindcraft, Inc.		(415) 323-9000