You can mount the new partition under /var and put your data in the new partition. Then you can move your data that you want to place in the new partiton. If you leave directories like `/var/lib alone, most of the other directories will be fine in the new partition. On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Kent West wrote:
> Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > >Hey everyone: > > > >I've got some unformatted disk space and I'd like to use it to make /var > >bigger. This is my existing system: > > > >htdig@debian:/$ df -h > >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >/dev/hda2 464M 27M 413M 7% / > >/dev/hda3 4.6G 1.6G 2.8G 37% /home > >/dev/hda5 2.3G 1.2G 1023M 55% /usr > >/dev/hda6 464M 396M 44M 91% /var > >/dev/hda7 2.8G 46M 2.6G 2% /usr/local > >/dev/hda9 46M 60K 44M 1% /tmp > > > >I also have a windows partition (or two) with approximately 8Gb available. > >I was thinking of giving /var 2.6Gb total (adding 2Gb). This is a laptop > >so the log files > >aren't critical for anything fun like web servers. I don't leave my mail > >in /var/mail (I move it over to my home directory). I'm currently running > >Woody (unstable). > > > >1. What do I need to do before I add the extra disk space? I can throw the > >entire current partition onto a cdrom as a backup. Is there anything else > >I need to do? > > > > > Backup is always a good idea. > I'd boot into single-user mode to do the actual change-over. > > >2. How do I actually resize a partition? Is "parted" a good package? > >http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/parted.html > > > I've never use parted; resizing Windows partitions depends on the file > system (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, etc). If it's FAT16/32, I've used fips > (booting off a DOS floppy to run it). > > You can either "add" the 2GB to your existing /var partition, by > mounting some subdirectory under /var onto the new partition, or you can > create a new 2.6GB partition, initialize the new partition (mkfs > /dev/hda2), mount that partition (mount /dev/hda2 /mnt) and then move > the data from your existing /var to the new var (cp -a /var/* /mnt), > then umount both partitions, re-mount the new partition on /var (mount > /dev/hda2 /var), and make the appropriate changes to /etc/fstab. This > second method will leave an unused 464MB partition in the middle of your > drive though; however, with some more shuffling, you could add it to > your existing /usr partition, or use it as a spare partition of some > sort, perhaps for compiling your programs. > > Perhaps parted makes all of this much simpler than I've been doing; I > just don't know. > > > >3. Without meaning to start a huge debate, is my current space allocation > >ok? I'm using my laptop as a development box. It has apache, mysql, open > >office, a bunch of browsers and vim. > > > Seems okay to me. > > > Really, what else does a girl need? > >;) > > > > > Drool - a geek girl - ga-a-ah drool slobber > > > >thanks! > > > >emma :) > > > > > > > And I've always liked the name Emma, ever since Emma Sams was in the > BigTime. > > Kent > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
