Re: resizing the root file system

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> Well, you need to either mount -o reload or reboot.
Ah, thanks.
But I cannot see /etc/rc.d/resize_root doing that.

> If you'd checked with df instead of fsck, you probably would have never
> seen it to begin with.
OK.

> meaning mount -o remount
You mean -o reload as above?

> Or you can use a normal fsck, let it set the size back down, and then 
> resize it again when you're done.
I think I'll try that one.

> But I _think_ you can't convert a read/write mount to read-only without 
> an unmount, which for the root filesystem means a reboot.
But mount(8) says (regarding -u):

also a file system can be changed from read-only to read-write or vice versa. 
An attempt to change from read-write to read-only will fail if any files on 
the file system are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is also 
specified.

and I tried it on /altroot which surely had no files open on it.