5.9. Editing or Removing an Existing Filesystem

After mounting a filesystem, you can go back and change the mount directory, source, and options at any time. Even most filesystems that were set up as part of your operating system's installation process can be edited. Some special filesystem types like proc and devfs, however, cannot be edited though Webmin because changing them would probably break your system.

The only catch is that filesystems currently in use cannot be immediately edited. If any user or process is accessing any file or is in any directory on a filesystem, it is considered busy and cannot be unmounted and remounted by Webmin in order to change it. Because the root filesystem is always in use, making immediate changes to it ...

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