----- Original Message ----- From: "dfox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] moving /var partition
> > My /var partition is getting full (http server and discussion board). I have > > new 30GB hard drive to add and want to move the /var partition to the new > > drive. > > How big is your existing /var, and do you have /var/spool mounted under- > neath it or on a separate partition? Here, I had run out of space on > /var and /var/spool/news. I originally dedicated a spare 1.6 meg drive to > house both, but that's nowhere near enough. I dedicated a 5 meg slice > for news and all of my 1.6 gig spare for /var (news logs are *huge*). > > Anyhow, if you partition that 30 gig drive beforehand you might have > some extra space to throw tarballs of the existing /var partition. I have > 10 gig or so left on / so I just throw the tarballs into /tmp. That way > I don't have to use the tape drive :). > > Archiving /var is a little tricky. Since processes may write to it, or own > files on it, you really need to shutdown (telinit 1) to single-user mode > before proceeding. Next, figure out how much room to give /var, and > tar up /var somewhere: > > # tar cvf /tmp/var.tar /var > > Then you can unmount /var: > > # umount /var > > redo a file system (I use reiserfs here) with reiserfs, remount /var over > on the new partition (i.e., mount /var /dev/hdb1) and untar your archive > you created in step 1. All that's remaining is to redo your /etc/fstab > so that /var points to the proper drive & partition, and it has the > proper filesystem. > > I've done this numerous times with success. Having the available space to > store the partition data before you mess with anything makes it a lot > easier, of course. > > > I'm going nuts with this: No matter what I do it takes several hours to get my system back to sorta the way it was. hda was not used before (unplugged old Win HD not used in 2 years) :) hdb Nothing hdc current harddrive with /root, home hdd cdwriter Mandrake has been running for over a year on this conf. 8.0, upgrade to 8.1, upgrade to 8.2. The problem started with the 8.1 to 8.2. In 8.1 I had partitions for /root, etc, home, var, usr and swap. after 8.2 I have root , home, and swap but swap looks like it is mounted under /. Var was folded into root and the var space on the disk was given to home. The end result: root still is ok, Home is 15G and Var is part of root with almost nothing. 1) and most inportant and seems to be the biggest problem: How do I get the currrent hdc to be hda (the old win drive is removed) 2) add a new drive as hdb (then put the /var part on it) 3) make the CD writer hdc 4)kiss ms goodbye, opps did most of that many years ago, No inportant info stored or used on a ms machine, only games.
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