I guess you could copy the files in /var/www to /home/www, and confirm they are copied correctly. Once that is done you could delete the files in /var/www and symlink to /home/www right away, or run for a week with the symlink, and then delete the files after that time. In any case, make a backup and check to ensure it is a good backup before you start. wilson -----Original Message----- From: Anze Vidmar [mailto:anzevi@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 08:37 AM Eastern Standard Time To: redhat-list Subject: partition changing hello my guru friends :) On a web hosting server we have silly partitioning like this: [anze@yokohama ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 6.7G 4.4G 2.0G 69% / /dev/sda2 150G 1G 149G 1% /home /dev/sda4 18G 17G 1G 97% /var (don't ask, I wasn't designing this :) So, I would like to swap partition /home with /var, because /var partition (where all the web hosting files are saved) are running out of disk space. The partition system id on both partitions is Linux. In theory this is no problem. But I'm not sure if this is safe to do while in runlevel 3 (the server is in another country and i don't have a chance to go there to boot into single mode for maintaining). So, the only way would be: - stop the Internet/database services (at least this can be done) on the server - backup /var and /home partitions in *.tar file (to keep permissions) - unmount the /var and /home partitions - edit the /etc/fstab file to correct mount point - mount the new /var partition and extract the backup tar file there - mount the /home partition and extract the backup tar file there - cross my fingers and hope not to get burned :-/ Of course I would clean the two partitions before restoring backup files on them. Is this method acceptable? Thank you, -- Anze Vidmar <anzevi@xxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu - direct contact information for affiliates is available at http://www.merck.com/contact/contacts.html) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
