On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 22:25 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 13:18 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its > > own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've > > copied /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as > > /var on reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using > > /var-tst for testing): > > > > /newvar /var-tst ext4 > > loop 0 0 > > > > but I'm getting: > > > > mount: /var-tst: failed to setup loop device for /newvar. > > If you've done what I think, made a new directory inside the system > root, and copied your old /var partition contents, then all you should > need to do is remove the old /var mount point, rename your new var > directory to just var, and let the OS use a /var directory inside /
That was the first thing I tried, but I can't rename /newvar to /var as /var is "in use" and of course can't be unmounted. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
