2012/8/3 Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin at gmail.com>: > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var > > To do so, I mounted the new drive as /var2, cp -R (in hindsight should > had rsync to preserve attributes), deleted the original /var to free > up space, edited fstab and rebooted... unsurprisingly to a fubar'd > server. > > The thing is it still boots, I can get into single user mode but a > full init get stuck at starting the syslogger. What is the best way to > rescue the server now from my own stupidity and keeping all the > existing configuration and data? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Did you rewrite the selinux policy on /var or have you tried disabling selinux if you haven't do so already?