On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:36:16PM +0000, richard@the-place.net wrote: > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine > as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with > no keyboard. Anyway it was unusable.) I thought it might be an initrd > problem, and had a half-baked memory that chrooting into the root > partition and running makeinitrd or somesuch would solve it. But as > usual I got errors from nonexistant /dev and /proc filesystems in the > chroot and so could not build a new initrd. So I copied /dev back > where it came from and reverted fstab and all was well. > > I might have been more persistent but had a slow (and expensive) i'net > connection so it was easier to give up. > > What should I have done? > > TIA Hi richard, most of the time /var/cache/apt/archives gets filled as it is where your debs are downloaded. About .5-1.5 GB should be ok to hold a few updates. Use 'clean' or 'autoclean' with aptitude when needed. This is an untested example of how to solve this: a) create /dev/hdb1 (new partition) with cfdisk b) mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1 # format new partition c) mount -t /dev/hdb1 /mnt # mount the new partition on a temporary # mount point d) mv /var/cache/apt/archives/* /mnt # move the files to the # temporary mount point e) umount /mnt # unmount temporary mount point f) add this to /etc/fstab: # add new partition to fstab /dev/hdb1 /var/cache/apt/archives ext3 defaults 0 1 g) mount -a # make mount command add the new # mount point h) check if all is ok with 'mount' # check if /var/hdb1 and # /var/cache/apt/archives are listed done. Next reboot will do this automatically. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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