Re: Moving /var to another drive

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* François Chenais (Francois.Chenais@citb.bull.net) spake thusly:
> And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during
> the tar ?

You may end up with a slightly b0rked system (but you knew that
already).

If your /var was on the root drive, you'll have to delete its
contents before mounting new /var -- otherwise nfs-mounted /var
will mask the old one, and contents of old /var will still be
there, using up disk space. 

Of course you'd better stop the daemons whose log and run files
you're deleting. So you'll do that in a single-user mode, with
all daemons stopped anyway, and then /var/run and /var/log won't
change during tar.

Dima
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