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

[John Shier]

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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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 4 Sep 2014, at 12:36, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan at gmail.com>
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 4 September 2014 13:13, Sri Krishna
>>> <kitchi.srikrishna at gmail.com> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- damjan
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