> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Robert Nichols > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:03 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > 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 0 > > To keep SELinux happy, you need to set up an equivalence of /var/home to > /home: > > semanage fcontext -a -e /home /var/home > > It'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. > > -- > Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. > Do NOT delete it. [Thomas E Dukes] Thanks, Bob!!