On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > make a filesystem on the extra partition (mkfs.ext4) > enter resuce or emergency mode (systemctl rescue) so that the least services run > > mount the new partition to /mnt > move everything from /var to /mnt > unmount /mnt > edit the /etc/fstab > > reboot > -1. Did you try this yourself? Can you think of any errors that your approach might cause? See, if you have open files in /var, they might get recreated on shutdown. Which leaves the mount point nonempty and probably breaks your boot process. cheers! mar77i