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I followed essentially the same process as suggested by Jeff a while
back and it worked for me.
On 09/04/2014 07:44 AM, Jeff Daniel Rollin-Jones wrote:
> I'd say copy everything in /var to /mnt.
>
> cp -a /var/* /mnt
>
> or
>
> cp -dpR /var/* /mnt
So it seems like the most feasible approach is to boot from CD/USB into
rescue mode, mount var into /mnt, copy the contents of the old var folder
into the new one, add the new one into fstab and reboot.
I guess I should also delete the old var folder. I'll try that in the next
few days and report
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> make a filesystem on the extra partition (mkfs.ext4)
> enter resuce or emergency mode (systemctl rescue) so that the least services
> run
>
> mount the new partition to /mnt
> move everything from /var to /mnt
> unmount /mnt
> edit the /
I'd say copy everything in /var to /mnt.
cp -a /var/* /mnt
or
cp -dpR /var/* /mnt
That way you don't lose anything if there's a power cut at an inconvenient
time, and you can change ftstab, reboot, and then check everything's working
before you hose your original /var (which if you do it thi
make a filesystem on the extra partition (mkfs.ext4)
enter resuce or emergency mode (systemctl rescue) so that the least services run
mount the new partition to /mnt
move everything from /var to /mnt
unmount /mnt
edit the /etc/fstab
reboot
On 4 September 2014 13:13, Sri Krishna wrote:
> Hi,
>
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Sri Krishna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing a clean install of Arch on a new computer, and during the install
> I'd already set aside 2GiB for the /var partition.
>
> Except I forgot to add it to fstab before I exited chroot, and booted into
> Arch and installed a DE etc
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