Re: [arch-general] Migrating /var to a different partition

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I followed essentially the same process as suggested by Jeff a while back and it worked for me. On 09/04/2014 07:44 AM, Jeff Daniel Rollin-Jones wrote:

I'd say copy everything in /var to /mnt.

cp -a /var/* /mnt

or

cp -dpR /var/* /mnt

That way you don't lose anything if there's a power cut at an inconvenient time, and you can change ftstab, reboot, and then check everything's working before you hose your original /var (which if you do it this way you really only need to do if (a) "/" is full and (b) original /var is big enough to be worth the trouble reclaiming the space (but remember to go into rescue mode and unmount your new /var first, if you do this!)

Jeff

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On 4 Sep 2014, at 12:36, Damjan Georgievski wrote:

make a filesystem on the extra partition (mkfs.ext4) enter resuce or emergency mode (systemctl rescue) so that the least services run

mount the new partition to /mnt move everything from /var to /mnt unmount /mnt edit the /etc/fstab

reboot

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On 4 September 2014 13:13, Sri Krishna wrote: Hi,

I'm doing a clean install of Arch on a new computer, and during the install I'd already set aside 2GiB for the /var partition.

Except I forgot to add it to fstab before I exited chroot, and booted into Arch and installed a DE etc. Now two days later I realize that Arch has already created a /var directory on the / partition. How do I migrate /var into the partition I'd originally created for it?

Is it as simple as adding a line to fstab and rebooting?

Thanks, Krishna

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