On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:16, Bill Tangren wrote: > 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. The easiest way, from my experience... - partition your disk - format your disk - mount the new partition temporarily (say, to /mnt/tmp) - tar copy (or cp copy) everything from /var to /mnt/tmp - unmount /mnt/tmp - Edit fstab to point to the new partition or label - remount/reboot as necessary Remember that labels are optional, you can still use the old scheme (/dev/hda*) in fstab. Also, if you choose to skip a reboot (yes, it's possible), make sure to HUP any services that might be writing to /var (syslog, apache, etc). HTH. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
