[CentOS] Can't delete or move /home on 7.3 install

[Glenn E. Bailey III]

Doing a lsof showed no open files against /home. Something else is
locking it, not a user process. Also disabled SELinux, did a init 1,
and only way to remove it was via single user by passing
init=/sysinit/bin/sh

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Leonard den Ottolander
<leonard at den.ottolander.nl> wrote:
> Hello Glen,
>
> On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 10:10 -0800, Glenn E. Bailey III wrote:
>> I was most def root.
>
> There's a difference whether you logged in as root or su-ed to root. In
> the latter case /home is still in use by the user you su-ed from.
>
> Even though it is not strictly necessary to init 1 you must make sure
> not a single user that uses /home for their home directory is logged in
> and no system user accesses files there (f.e. apache configured with
> home dirs) when attempting to move /home.
>
> Regards,
> Leonard.
>
> --
> mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
>
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