Hi there, sorry for the late reply, just came back from a little holiday/xmas shopping :) anyway, I know now what I was doing wrong, probably a typical newbie mistake!
When all data was moved to /var2, I had no more /var! I should have created a directory /var (empty) to mount the new filesystem on. When booting, /etc/fstab refered to a folder that did not exist :-S Thanks for the advise anyway! Best regards, Jan On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:36:11 +0000, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > ____________________________________________________ > > >
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