Re: moving var

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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Stephen Carville wrote:

> On Tuesday March 25 2003 09:43 am, Marek wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I would like to move my /var dir to some free space i have on a drive.
> > How would i achieve this ?
> 
> Copy the contents of /var to the new location.
> 
> Change to /
> 
> Drop to single user mode
> 
> Unmount /var
> 
> Mount the new location as /var
> 
> Change /etc/fstab to reflect the new configuration.

just a thought, but would it be possible to unmount and remount
/var in one operation using the "remount" option of the mount
command?

after that's done, you could always change the /etc/fstab entry
at your leisure.  any reason why this wouldn't work?

rday



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