So it seems like the most feasible approach is to boot from CD/USB into rescue mode, mount var into /mnt, copy the contents of the old var folder into the new one, add the new one into fstab and reboot. I guess I should also delete the old var folder. I'll try that in the next few days and report back on how it went! Hopefully it won't cause my system to catch fire and explode. :) Thanks, Krishna On 4 September 2014 17:16, Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >
