Bill Tangren said: > Hello all, > > I know this has been addressed on this list before, but I can't seem to > find it in the archives. If someone can point it out, I would be very > appreciative. > > My /var partition is nearly full. I installed a new hard disk, used > fdisk to partition it. I then used mke2fs to make an ext3 partition I > called /user. I then added a line for it in /etc/fstab. > > What I want to do at this point is to make move /var to /user and give > them each others names. I went into single user mode and copied > everything from /var to /user > > # cp -prx /var/* /user > > What is(are) the next step(s)? > > I couldn't figure this out, so I noticed that the largest file in /var > is /var/log/lastlog, so I tried making a hard link to /user/log/lastlog. > No joy. > > Any ideas? > > TIA, > > Bill Tangren I would boot into rescue (or single user) mode and use find/cpio to copy /var/ to /user/. find /var -xdev | cpio -pmduv /user ...and then just rename them and modify your fstab file. mv /var /var.old mv /user /var mv /var.old /user Chris -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
