Re: making /var bigger
You can mount the new partition under /var and put your data in the new
partition. Then you can move your data that you want to place in the new
partiton. If you leave directories like `/var/lib alone, most of the other
directories will be fine in the new partition.
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Kent West wrote:
> Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
>
> >Hey everyone:
> >
> >I've got some unformatted disk space and I'd like to use it to make /var
> >bigger. This is my existing system:
> >
> >htdig@debian:/$ df -h
> >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >/dev/hda2 464M 27M 413M 7% /
> >/dev/hda3 4.6G 1.6G 2.8G 37% /home
> >/dev/hda5 2.3G 1.2G 1023M 55% /usr
> >/dev/hda6 464M 396M 44M 91% /var
> >/dev/hda7 2.8G 46M 2.6G 2% /usr/local
> >/dev/hda9 46M 60K 44M 1% /tmp
> >
> >I also have a windows partition (or two) with approximately 8Gb available.
> >I was thinking of giving /var 2.6Gb total (adding 2Gb). This is a laptop
> >so the log files
> >aren't critical for anything fun like web servers. I don't leave my mail
> >in /var/mail (I move it over to my home directory). I'm currently running
> >Woody (unstable).
> >
> >1. What do I need to do before I add the extra disk space? I can throw the
> >entire current partition onto a cdrom as a backup. Is there anything else
> >I need to do?
> >
> >
> Backup is always a good idea.
> I'd boot into single-user mode to do the actual change-over.
>
> >2. How do I actually resize a partition? Is "parted" a good package?
> >http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/parted.html
> >
> I've never use parted; resizing Windows partitions depends on the file
> system (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, etc). If it's FAT16/32, I've used fips
> (booting off a DOS floppy to run it).
>
> You can either "add" the 2GB to your existing /var partition, by
> mounting some subdirectory under /var onto the new partition, or you can
> create a new 2.6GB partition, initialize the new partition (mkfs
> /dev/hda2), mount that partition (mount /dev/hda2 /mnt) and then move
> the data from your existing /var to the new var (cp -a /var/* /mnt),
> then umount both partitions, re-mount the new partition on /var (mount
> /dev/hda2 /var), and make the appropriate changes to /etc/fstab. This
> second method will leave an unused 464MB partition in the middle of your
> drive though; however, with some more shuffling, you could add it to
> your existing /usr partition, or use it as a spare partition of some
> sort, perhaps for compiling your programs.
>
> Perhaps parted makes all of this much simpler than I've been doing; I
> just don't know.
>
>
> >3. Without meaning to start a huge debate, is my current space allocation
> >ok? I'm using my laptop as a development box. It has apache, mysql, open
> >office, a bunch of browsers and vim.
> >
> Seems okay to me.
>
> > Really, what else does a girl need?
> >;)
> >
> >
> Drool - a geek girl - ga-a-ah drool slobber
>
>
> >thanks!
> >
> >emma :)
> >
> >
> >
> And I've always liked the name Emma, ever since Emma Sams was in the
> BigTime.
>
> Kent
>
>
>
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