>>Is this method acceptable? Test the restore of tar backups or any other backups ,before you clean out the partitions. I have successfully completed 4 DR test,and my experience tells me always test your backups by restoring to test machines . (2 sets of backups) -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anze Vidmar Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:37 AM 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
