On 3/5/06, kghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was trying to make a boot-cd of my debian installation, using
> 'bootcdwrite'.
> I get a complain that /var/spool/bootcd is required to be greater than
> 665600 bytes, at present it is 4779680 bytes.
> How to increase the size of /var ?
I cannot provide a complete answer without knowing the exact state of
your system. Do you have /var on a separate partition? Is /var on the
same partition as your /?
Anyway, assuming you have a spare partition (say, /dev/hda4) that you
would like to make into your /var, here is what you need to do (change
as per your tastes):
Boot into single user mode or rescue mode. Use fdisk to create the
partition /dev/hda4 (if it does not exist). Write the data to disk.
Create the filesystem (i.e. format) on /dev/hda4:
# mke2fs /dev/hda4
Mount /dev/hda4 somewhere:
# mkdir /newvar
# mount /dev/hda4 /newvar
Copy the files (preserving ownerships and permissions) from old var to new var:
# (cd /var && tar zcvfp .) | (cd /newvar && tar zxvfp)
Go grab a coffee.
Rename /var to something else
# mv /var /oldvar
Create a new /var
# mkdir /var
Edit /etc/fstab to have a line like so:
/dev/hda4 /var ext3 defaults 0 1
Stir. Reboot. Et Voila!
Thaths
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