Hi, I've installed my proxy server (squid) on a mandrake 9.1 on a VMWare running on a Windows 2000 Server... just to start and learn more about Linux. I have a lot of servers installed, so my 4Gb disk is getting a little bit full. I had 3 partitions, /, /home and swapspace. I tried adding a new (virtual) disk with diskdrake, wanting /var to be mounted on the new filesystem. That folder is most likely to expand the most and the fastest. I got a couple problems with diskdrake so I mounted it on /var2 and thought "I can fix that later..." Anyway, I later moved all existing data from /var to /var2 after stopping all services, removed /var and wanted to mv /var2 /var.... didn't work :-/ I changed /etc/fstab so the new disk would mount on /var next time but no such luck. Instead a new /var folder was created and /var2 was emtpy (after rebooting and reconfiguring /etc/fstab I found my data again).
Could anyone please give me a hint how I can proceed to move /var to the new disk? Tia, Jan PS. I'm using gmail, please make sure you send your reply back to the list, thanks.
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