-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of J Martin Rushton Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:23 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition
On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote:
Hello,
I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free.
I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user.
I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the root partition to get very low. I would like to move /var from the root partition, to the same partition as /home, if that's safe to do.
Or, resize /home and add another partition for /var
I also don't want to screw the pooch doing it.
This is over my head. The more I read about it, the more confused I
get.
The way I've been doing it for quite some time is to make /var a separate partition, put the home directories on /var/home, and then bind-mount /var/home on /home. In /etc/fstab that's:
/var/home /home none bind 0 0To keep SELinux happy, you need to set up an equivalence of /var/home to /home:
semanage fcontext -a -e /home /var/homeIt's all completely transparent in the running system. The only time I have to remember that it's set up that way is when I'm looking in my backups and need to know that home directories are backed up as part of /var.
Alternatively create /home/VM and keep the virtualised disks in there.
[Thomas E Dukes] Thanks,
I didn't even think about that.
I deleted the VM I setup yesterday. I used the CentOS 7 minimal iso, probably should have used the full iso. It didn't have any choices of packages to install, that I saw. I wanted to setup a server.
Thanks!!