moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread kaynjay
Hi, I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new partition, or move /var over (it's on it's own part. now). Question is...

Re: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question is... which is likely best? Or should I go into mtab and mount the new partition at /var/cache/apt/archives/ (if that's possible)? You're on the right track. The correct solution is: mount -text2 /dev/whatever /var/cache/apt/archives You

RE: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new partition, or move /var over

Re: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi, : : I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know : that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another : partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new : partition, or

Re: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread kaynjay
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:54:31PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 01-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Question is... which is likely best? Or should I go into mtab and mount th new partition at /var/cache/apt/archives/ (if that's possible)? *slap* mtab is a run time created