On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Sri Krishna <kitchi.srikrishna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing a clean install of Arch on a new computer, and during the install > I'd already set aside 2GiB for the /var partition. > > Except I forgot to add it to fstab before I exited chroot, and booted into > Arch and installed a DE etc. Now two days later I realize that Arch has > already created a /var directory on the / partition. How do I migrate /var > into the partition I'd originally created for it? > > Is it as simple as adding a line to fstab and rebooting? > Obviously, no. Check pacman -Ql. You'll probably end up booting from cd, moving all data that now resides in /var to your var partition, change fstab and see if that boots. cheers! mar77i
