Thanks Animesh. I think I can handle it now. Rgds, Nikhil
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Animesh Singh Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:07 AM To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: RE: [ILUG-BOM] help regarding partitioning ! Evening Nikhil, > I am interested in increasing the /var partition on > my harddrive. It is only > 250 Mb currently and I would like to allocate more > space to this partition. > > The partitions are as follows : > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted On > /dev/hda2 110G 4.8G 100G 5% / > /dev/hda1 99M 9.2M 85M 10% /boot > none 109M 0 109M 0% /dev/shm <snip> Partition is a portion of the disk reserved for a specific file system and function. /dev/hda2 / ( this is root partition. ) /dev/hda1 /boot ( this is boot partition. ) none /dev/shm ( this is swap partition. ) So now ur "/var" directory is on "/" ( root partition ). So in this case if u want to put "/var" on specific partition, then U should have space more space left on ur hda disk or add aditional disk. Create partition and mount it to specific place and copy the entire "/var" directory data to mounted partition and then make the appro. changes in "/etc/fstab" file to reflect. U r set to go now :-) Reagrds, Animesh. > > Can someone suggest how to go about it. > > Thanks > Nikhil > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
