[CentOS] Can't delete or move /home on 7.3 install
Jon LaBadie
jcu at labadie.us
Thu Dec 15 15:41:11 UTC 2016
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:10:07AM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
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> On 12/15/2016 01:47 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Glenn E. Bailey III <
> > replicant at dallaslamers.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Tried this in both AWS and GCE as I though it may be a specific cloud
> >> vendor issue. SELinux is disabled, lsof | grep home shows nothing,
> >> lsattr /home shows nothing. Simply get "Device or resource busy."
> >>
> >> Works just find on 7.2 so I'm kinda at a loss. Scanned over the RHEL
> >> release notes and didn't see anything. Anyone else have this issue? We
> >> move our /home to another mount point and symlink /home to it ..
> >>
> >>
> > Do you have access to the console, so that you can try to do the move while
> > in single user mode?
> >
> }}
>
> that is one possibility.
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> even greater is op is a 'user', not 'root'.
>
Another possibility is /home is a separate file system. In that
case the OP does not want to "move it" but unmount it, change
the mount point in /etc/fstab, rmdir /home, and ln -s
new_mntpoint to /home. Then mount it again. Probably best
done is single user mode.
jl
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