I'm probably wrong, but I don't believe your suggestion will work as
hda5, 6 & 7 are on the same logical partition. Correct ?
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From: Maxwell Smart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 12:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Moving directories
On 09-Jun-98 Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote:
>
> I have a system which has the fs setup as follows:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 99M 72M 22M 77% /
> /dev/hda7 4.2G 2.3M 4.0G 0% /home
> /dev/hda6 478M 386M 68M 85% /usr
> /dev/hda5 949M 139M 761M 15% /usr/src
>
>
> As you can see, I have lots of free space on /dev/hda7, but very
little
> on /. Sendmail is giving me errors about not having enough space in
> /var/mqueue.
>
> How can I move /var/* to /dev/hda7 ?
1) login as root
2) Temporarily move the /home files to a temporary directory.
Creating one called /temp works fine. (mv -R /home/* /temp)
3) umount your hda7 partition.
4) fdisk the hda7 partition into a couple of smaller partitions. I have
100MB for /home and it's almost unused with 2 users. You may
even want to look at creating a new /usr or adding a /usr/doc or
a /usr/local to this after you're finished with this trick. Possibly
all
of the above. I'd do it all one at a time if I were you,
5) In /etc/fstab, create entries for the new /home (smaller partition)
and a /var1 for the new /var partition.
6) mount your new partitions.
7) Move the relocated /home files into the new /home. (mv -R /temp/*
/home)
8) cp everything in /var to /var1. (cp -R /var/* /var1)
9) Re-edit fstab and change the /var1 entry to /var.
10) Reboot.
Did I miss something? I think that will work.
I've done similar but, using FileRunner instead of the command line. It
keeps all ownership and permissions the same.
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