Mon, 05 Feb 2007, by Jamesp@MusicReports.com:

Hello,

How can I move /var, currently on the system drive, to the RAID drive without hosing my system?

Many thanks in advance.

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On Monday 05 February 2007 13:28, James D. Parra wrote:

Hello,

How can I move /var, currently on the system drive, to the RAID drive without hosing my system?

While the system is running??? Wouldn't really do that. Best option would be to build your new filesystem, boot a rescue CD, then mount your /var and /newvar partition. Now, if your /var is on your root (/) partition, then just mount your root partiton as /mnt and then do the following. tar cf - /mnt/var | (cd /mnt/newvar; tar xf - ) make sure you edit the /etc/fstab on YOUR root partition (assuming you mounted it like the other partitions above) to point to the /newvar partition. DON'T EDIT the rescue /etc/fstab, that won't get things done. There are lots of ways to go about doing this, but this is the way I've been doing it for the past 12 years. cpio and dd come to mind as alternatives. brian -- Brian Jackson Photo Sports ~ People ~ Events http://www.BrianJacksonPhoto.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org