On 01-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know > that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another > partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new > partition, or move /var over (it's on it's own part. now). > > Question is... which is likely best? Or should I go into mtab and mount the > new partition at /var/cache/apt/archives/ (if that's possible)? >
*slap* mtab is a run time created file by the working system, do not change it, do not touch it. Even if you do change it -- nothing happens. Change /etc/fstab. > And am I correst in thinking that a > cp -aR /var/* /newpartition > followed by mtab changes is correct for shifting partitions? I seem to > recall this as the MO for such stuff. > Yes, move the data over than place a mount /dev/??? /var in fstab.
