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
I don't think this worked. I *know* my cp -prx blah blah didn't work. I get several errors when I reboot:
chmod: failed to get attributes of '/var/log/wtmp': No such file or directory.
I am guessing these files were not copied or created properly in the /user filesystem.
...and then just rename them and modify your fstab file.
mv /var /var.old mv /user /var mv /var.old /user
Chris
I also tried used parted to copy the filesystem, but parted didn't work. I'm guessing it was expecting an ext2 filesystem, when it was actually an ext3 filesystem. I was also hoping to use parted to reduce what will be a 60GB /var partition to something more managable. No joy there either.
Does parted not work with ext3?
Bill
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