Hi. I have long time ago on my TW system moved /var to a separate disc. This mainly because I have my virtualised disks on it, with kvm/quemu and I needed a lot of space. I also wanted to avoid them, exactly in the current scenario were I did brake the system and reinstalled. Now the situation: I am referring to what I did to https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-move-var-directory-to-another-partition I have /dev/sda1 (for boot/efi) /dev/sda2 (2 GB swap) /dev/sda3 (root) on a ssd (sda) then /dev/sdb1 (for old var - this disc shows in smart prefailure and old age, read errors and had to be changed urgently). It was worth 500 GB data and was mounted as /var (currently it is NOT mounted as var, as the installation was not possible to a problem with the partition) I have a former /home that was already migrated on /dev/sdc1 (with 2 TB of space now) and that will be attributed to /var I have a new /dev/sd1 drive with 4 TB of data for /home (the old went straight anyway...). The system on sda and with sdd1 as /home works perfectly. Now I want to save my kvm data. I did mkdir /mnt/oldvar mkdir /mnt/newvar then mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/oldvar mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/newvar I then issued # rsync -aqx --progress /mnt/oldvar/* /mnt/newvar and copied all the old unused var to the new location. So at least the kvm data is now save. Now, I would like of course to mount the /mnt/newvar as regular /var and I wanted to ask: can I do this, or is it necessary to rsync the /var of now to the /mnt/newvar and if so, how can I be sure that data that is not there (my old kvm) is not erased and that my content of /var of the current system is actually taken. Or can I simply to what is in the howto and mount the old var (as logs I would only loose the successful installation... but temp system files etc? As I have not experience to migrate /var in these conditions, I would be grateful for some insight. _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postf�cher sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org