On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [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)?
Don't touch /etc/mtab; use /etc/fstab instead. You could mount your new filesystem on /var/cache/apt/archives/ if you like. : 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. I prefer this: cd /var; find . -xdev -print | cpio -padm /target Replace var with the source dir, /target with the mountpoint of the new fs (usually /mnt around here) Again, you want to change /etc/fstab, not /etc/mtab. It's generally best to go to single-user (init 1) if you're going to move filesystems around. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
