moving /var and /home to a new partition

[Janina Sajka]

You can just add it, something like:

/dev/sda4 /var ext3 rw                  0       2

Adjust for your own partition, of course.

And, you do know fstab has its own man page, apart from the mount man
page, right?


Raul A. Gallegos writes:
> 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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