So sprach Ran Hooper am Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:32:10PM -0800:
> 4) tar czpf /vardata.tar.gz /var
-z isn't necesssary if you have enough freespace in /
I would do it a little different, but your approach wasn't wrong though.
1) turn off computer
2) install hardware
3) turn on
4) add alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx to /etc/modules.conf
5) run cfdisk/fdisk to partition the drive
6) I'd choose reiserfs as the fs for the new drive, but that's up to you
7) mkreiserfs /dev/sda1 (or mke2fs /dev/sda1)
8) add /dev/sda1 /var reiserfs defaults 0 0 to /etc/fstab
9) mount (-t reiserfs) /dev/sda1 /mnt/newvar
10) tar cfvsp - -C /var | tar xfvsp - -C /mnt/newvar
(now you have a copy of /var in /mnt)
11) mv /var /varold
12) umount /mnv/newvar
13) mount /var
14) rm -rf /varold
> 6) Run diskdrake, mount the drive, hopefully it takes care of fstab yes?
What does diskdrake do?
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