On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, 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 ?
>
You could make a diectory /home/var/
cp -R /var/* /home/var/
ln -sf /home/var /var
this should do the trick (as long as there are no progs or files with
relative pathnames in var but try it out), even if its not very elegant
Clemens
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