Re: how to implement my unused /var partition in FC4?

From: Robert Nichols (SEE_SIGNATURE_at_localhost.localdomain.invalid)
Date: 07/13/05

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    Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:15:07 +0000 (UTC)

    In article <1121229461.015523.273450@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
    andrew <seawolf@scssi.org> wrote:
    :Hello, all
    :
    :when I was installing my FC4 recently, i had allocated a separate
    :(500MB) partition for /var, but somehow missed telling the installer
    :this, and ended up with a /var subdirectory of /(root)
    :
    :short of doing a reinstall (which would be very time-costly for me),
    :how can I fix this?
    :
    :Should the follow strategy work?
    :
    :I tried the following once, but did not persist after it failed:
    :
    :1) boot with linux rescue
    :2) mount my /dev/sda5 (the unused, intended /var) on a temporary
    : mount point ( /sysimage/blah )
    :
    :3) cp -Rp /sysimage/var /sysimage/blah
    :
    :4) add the following to my /etc/fstab :
    :/dev/sda5 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
    :
    :When I rebooted, the system hang
    :I had to go into linux rescue and delete the above fstab line, to get
    :back to "normal"

    I suspect that the problem is with your "cp" command and that the
    contents of your old /var directory now exist in /var/var when your
    new partition is mounted. Try this:

            cp -a /sysimage/var/* /sysimage/blah

    Note the use of "-a", which will preserve symbolic links, something
    your original options did not do. 

    -- 
Bob Nichols         AT comcast.net I am "rnichols42"
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