[ale] moving /var

[cdcoleman at bellsouth.net (Chris Coleman)]

Single user mode is best. Be careful to keep the permissions and ownership
intact when you copy the files to the new partition.

Chris

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul
To: ale at ale.org
Cartwright
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] moving /var

I have a need to increase the size of a /var partition for someone. 
I've got info on adding the new drive, creating partitions, adding to fstab,

relabeling partitions. What I'm not sure about is an active system partition

like /var . Once I create the new partition on the new drive, will I have a 
problem copying all the files from /var to the new drive while the system is

running? Will putting it in single user mode work?

any other gotchas I should know about?
this is a RedHat 3 update 6 Enterprise server.

thanks,
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
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