RE: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

2005-03-02 Thread Gerald Lightsey
Nathan Kinkade said... Here is quick rundown on how you could achieve your goal: 1) Mount the new disk at at /mnt with something like: # mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt 2) Copy everything from your original /var partition to the new one: # cd /var tar cf - ./ | (cd /mnt tar xvpf -) 3)

Re: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

2005-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:42:40AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote: Nathan Kinkade said... Here is quick rundown on how you could achieve your goal: 1) Mount the new disk at at /mnt with something like: # mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt 2) Copy everything from your original /var partition to

Re: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

2005-02-28 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:15:23AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote: Posted last night to newbies -(my mistake) I'm brand new to FreeBSD and Unix world in general. My son has an internet site supported by FreeBSD that uses MySQL. I have set up a FreeBSD version 5.3 system on my home network

Re: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

2005-02-28 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:15:23AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote: snip My surprise is that every indication I get after I regain control of the system is that the database tables are being built within the ORIGINAL /var directory structure rather than the 120gb drive mounted on the /var