On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. >> >> I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. >> >> I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the root >> partition to >> get very low. I would like to move /var from the root partition, to >> the same >> partition as /home, if that's safe to do. >> >> Or, resize /home and add another partition for /var >> >> I also don't want to screw the pooch doing it. >> >> This is over my head. The more I read about it, the more confused I get. > > The way I've been doing it for quite some time is to make /var a > separate partition, put the home directories on /var/home, and then > bind-mount /var/home on /home. In /etc/fstab that's: > > /var/home /home none bind 0 0 > > To keep SELinux happy, you need to set up an equivalence of /var/home > to /home: > > semanage fcontext -a -e /home /var/home > > It's all completely transparent in the running system. The only time I > have to remember that it's set up that way is when I'm looking in my > backups and need to know that home directories are backed up as part > of /var. > Alternatively create /home/VM and keep the virtualised disks in there.
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