Adding the new mount point to fstab is quite easy. What I do is: 1. mount the new partitions 2. make sure it is working the way you want it too. 3. read /etc/mtab and look for the entry related to the new mount partition. 4. copy the related entry from mtab into fstab. Note, I do not type the entry into fstab, I read the entry in using with my editor to avoid any chance of mistyping it. Steve Steve Dawes Calgary Canada. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:44 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: moving /var and /home to a new partition 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. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
