Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

[Michael Iatrou <m.iatrou@freemail.gr>]

When the date was Friday 12 December 2008, steve wrote:

> is there no fairly straightforward way to expand /var and decrease
> /home?  for some reason when I installed etch quite a while ago in my
> fairly successful attempt at running a webserver it made /var only 2.8
> gig and made /home 280 something gig.
>
> now I want /var to be say 200 gig, and /home alot smaller..... for
> obvious reasons. OR, if theres an easier way to accomplish, maybe mount
> /home inside /var? I dont know, reaching for answers lol.
>
> Thanks for any tips or links you can provide.

You could create a symbolic link from /var/web/server/files to /home/htdocs/

Resizing your partitions is error prone and depends on file system, it's a 
process you really want to avoid.

-- 
 Michael Iatrou (gxkx)