moving /var and /home to a new partition

[Steve Dawes]

Adding the new mount point to fstab is quite easy. What I do is:
1. mount the new partitions
2. make sure it is working the way you want it too.
3. read /etc/mtab and look for the entry related to the new mount partition.
4. copy the related entry from mtab into fstab.

Note, I do not type the entry into fstab, I read the entry in using with my
editor to avoid any chance of mistyping it.


Steve

Steve Dawes
Calgary Canada.


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:44 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: moving /var and /home to a new partition


Hi Ganina and others;

I ended up doing a command like this:

mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
cd /var
rsync -a * /mnt

>From reading the man page on rsync it seems that using the -a parameter is
like using recursive, simlinks, preserve owner, group, device.

Took some reading on using labels in fstab but I think I got it right.  I
just don't know where to make the needed modifications so that I don't edit
fstab directly to add the new /var partition.


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