You can just add it, something like: /dev/sda4 /var ext3 rw 0 2 Adjust for your own partition, of course. And, you do know fstab has its own man page, apart from the mount man page, right? Raul A. Gallegos writes: > 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 -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.