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Var Partition Movement

To move the /var directory to a new partition, the document outlines making a new partition and formatting it, mounting it to /mnt/newvar, copying existing /var contents to the new partition while in single-user mode, renaming /var to /var.old, creating a new /var directory, unmounting and remounting the new partition as /var, and adding it to /etc/fstab.

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Var Partition Movement

To move the /var directory to a new partition, the document outlines making a new partition and formatting it, mounting it to /mnt/newvar, copying existing /var contents to the new partition while in single-user mode, renaming /var to /var.old, creating a new /var directory, unmounting and remounting the new partition as /var, and adding it to /etc/fstab.

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Steps to move /var to a New Partition in Linux. 1) 1) make the new partition, & format with mkfs.

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2) mount the new filesystem in /mnt # mkdir /mnt/newvar # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/newvar 3) Go to single-user mode so that there is no rw activity on the directory during the process # init 1 4) Backup data in var only (not the /var directory itself) # cd /var # cp -ax * /mnt/newvar 5) Rename the /var directory (to make sure this has worked before deleting it!) # cd / # mv var var.old 6) Make new var directory # mkdir /var 7) Unmount the new partition # umount /dev/sdb1 8) Remount it as /var # mount /dev/sdb1 /var 9) If everything goes fine then put an entry into /etc/fstab /dev/sdb1 /var ext3 defaults 00

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