[CentOS] Mounting /var directory to a new HardDisk
Indunil Jayasooriya
indunil75 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 07:07:01 UTC 2008
On Jan 18, 2008 9:08 AM, redhat at mckerrs.net <redhat at mckerrs.net> wrote:
> For sure you will be able to mount /var on your new disk....
Thank you very much for it.
>
> but not before you boot single user and copy all the contents across manually and then modify /etc/fstab to reflect the new location of /var.
If I boot from single user mode and copy /var directory to new
hardiisk, What will happent to permissions?
Then, What should I do to /var directory on OLD HardDisk. Should I
leave it alone or Should I rename it or Should I delete it?
Remember, Curently / and /opt and /boot and /swap are MOUNTED. i.e
/var is under / partition.
here is my /etc/fstab
[root at gateway root]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/opt /opt ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>
> In my experience it is nigh-on impossible to *move* /var when a system is running.
Noted.
> Hint : next time use LVM *even* if you only have 1 physical disk to start with. It makes this sort of situation an non-event.
Yes , I aggree with you.
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Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya
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