RE: partition changing

Is this method acceptable?

Test the restore of tar backups or any other backups ,before you
clean out the partitions. I have successfully completed 4 DR test,and my
experience tells me always test your backups by restoring to test
machines .
(2 sets of backups)

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anze Vidmar
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:37 AM
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Subject: partition changing

hello my guru friends :)

On a web hosting server we have silly partitioning like this:

[anze@yokohama ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 6.7G 4.4G 2.0G 69% /
/dev/sda2 150G 1G 149G 1% /home
/dev/sda4 18G 17G 1G 97% /var

(don't ask, I wasn't designing this :)

So, I would like to swap partition /home with /var, because /var
partition (where all the web hosting files are saved) are running out of
disk space. The partition system id on both partitions is Linux. In
theory this is no problem. But I'm not sure if this is safe to do while
in runlevel 3 (the server is in another country and i don't have a
chance to go there to boot into single mode for maintaining).

So, the only way would be:

- stop the Internet/database services (at least this can be done) on the
server
- backup /var and /home partitions in *.tar file (to keep permissions)
- unmount the /var and /home partitions
- edit the /etc/fstab file to correct mount point
- mount the new /var partition and extract the backup tar file there
- mount the /home partition and extract the backup tar file there
- cross my fingers and hope not to get burned :-/

Of course I would clean the two partitions before restoring backup files
on them. Is this method acceptable?
Thank you,

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