On Friday 26 November 2004 01:00, Jan RUBBRECHT wrote: > 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.
You are not doing much wrong. In brief to move /var to a new partition the steps are :- 1/ Make a new partition and mount it on var2 2/ Copy /var to /var2 with cp -a /var/* /var2 (/var2 should now contain the files previously on /var including symlinks) 3/ Revise /etc/fstab so /the partition currently mounted as /var2 will be mounted as /var 4/ Reboot derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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