I'd say copy everything in /var to /mnt. cp -a /var/* /mnt
or cp -dpR /var/* /mnt That way you don't lose anything if there's a power cut at an inconvenient time, and you can change ftstab, reboot, and then check everything's working before you hose your original /var (which if you do it this way you really only need to do if (a) "/" is full and (b) original /var is big enough to be worth the trouble reclaiming the space (but remember to go into rescue mode and unmount your new /var first, if you do this!) Jeff Sent from my iPhone > On 4 Sep 2014, at 12:36, Damjan Georgievski <gdam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > make a filesystem on the extra partition (mkfs.ext4) > enter resuce or emergency mode (systemctl rescue) so that the least services > run > > mount the new partition to /mnt > move everything from /var to /mnt > unmount /mnt > edit the /etc/fstab > > reboot > > > >> On 4 September 2014 13:13, Sri Krishna <kitchi.srikris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm doing a clean install of Arch on a new computer, and during the install >> I'd already set aside 2GiB for the /var partition. >> >> Except I forgot to add it to fstab before I exited chroot, and booted into >> Arch and installed a DE etc. Now two days later I realize that Arch has >> already created a /var directory on the / partition. How do I migrate /var >> into the partition I'd originally created for it? >> >> Is it as simple as adding a line to fstab and rebooting? >> >> Thanks, >> Krishna > > > > -- > damjan
