On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 09:18, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > 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. > > > > /var-tst exists, so that's the problem? The man page for mount states > > that it will create the necessary /dev loopback device if it isn't > > specified. Currently there are no loopback devices in the system, and > > the loop kernel module is loaded. > > > > The default scheme has /var as a directory. > Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename `/newvar` to > `/var` and edit fstab. I may have to do that as /var is too central to booting even in single- user mode. poc _______________________________________________ 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
