Hi Ganina and others; I ended up doing a command like this: mount /dev/hda4 /mnt cd /var rsync -a * /mnt >From reading the man page on rsync it seems that using the -a parameter is like using recursive, simlinks, preserve owner, group, device. Took some reading on using labels in fstab but I think I got it right. I just don't know where to make the needed modifications so that I don't edit fstab directly to add the new /var partition.
