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 / -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 29 17:46:05 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
