On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:05:04PM -0500, ktb wrote: > I've just installed potato base via internet and am trying to download > the rest of the packages I want. I made my /var partition too small in > retrospect. I made a /usr/local partition that I don't need so large. > /var is on /dev/hda17 > /usr/local is on /dev/hda14 > > How can I make /var be /dev/hda14 and > /usr/local be /dev/hda17? well assuming you don't need anything in /usr/local right now just rm -rf /usr/local/* and then run: (cd /var; tar -cvpf - .) | (cd /usr/local; tar -xvpf -) then change /etc/fstab. you should probably create a tarball of /usr/local/* so you can restore it when you change over, once your sure it worked remove all the /var files from the new /usr/local. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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