[ale] moving /var

[Danny Cox]

Paul,

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:02 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> I have a need to increase the size of a /var partition for someone. 
> I've got info on adding the new drive, creating partitions, adding to fstab, 
> relabeling partitions. What I'm not sure about is an active system partition 
> like /var . Once I create the new partition on the new drive, will I have a 
> problem copying all the files from /var to the new drive while the system is 
> running? Will putting it in single user mode work?


    I wouldn't try moving /var WITHOUT the system in single user mode.
Then, doing the copy, rename, modify fstab should work just fine, as all
other processes haven't been started yet.


> 
> any other gotchas I should know about?


    Not that I could think of.


> this is a RedHat 3 update 6 Enterprise server.


-- 
Daniel S. Cox
Internet Commerce Corporation
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