Re: Creating/Moving a partition
I had a similar problem and I found the Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO to be
much helpful.
I hope that such a reference is acceptable by you, though it is not a direct
answer. Some few weeks ago someone replied to me quite rudely when I answered
him this way. I find such references to be of much help and do not mind that
people will answer to me like that.
> 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?
>
> Thanks.
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> David J. Kanter
> djkanter@nwu.edu
> Debian 2.1
>
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