Re: Creating/Moving a partition

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

"David J. Kanter" wrote:
> 
> I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive
> space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade.
> What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because
> I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have
> to modify to make sure things go smoothly?
> 
> I assume I'll have to change fstab. But then do I have to move all contents
> of the current /var to the new /var? Could I create the new partition using
> a temporary name, move all the /var stuff to it, then rename it to /var?
> 
Yep, exactly.  I'd go down to single-user mode to do this.  'Shutdown',
good backups, and 'cp -a' are your friends.