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. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya