On Wednesday March 26 2003 12:24 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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? AFAIK, 'remount' can only be used to change the attributes of a mounted file system. It cannot change the mount point or device. Another thing occured to me. The sequence I described only works if /var is being moved to a new device -- eg from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc2 . If the desire is to move /var to another directory on a mounted file system -- eg /var to /usr/local/var -- then you will want to use a symlink. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
