diskdrake is the gui disk partitioning program you see when you first install mandrake. It can also be run from x. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Skwar Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var 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? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx GnuPG ID: 4E35467E FP: 93367E5B4AB777B42065533F456FF17C4E35467E ICQ: 7328191
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