Hello, I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in /dev/hda in the same partition of / (no separate partition for /var).
I am thinking on the following: 1. "tar cvf var.tar /var/*" to have a backup of the current contents of /var. 2. "tar cvf home.tar /home/*" to have a backup of home. 3. "umount /home" and use cfdisk to create the new partition. 4. Modify /etc/fstab to account for the new mapping of file systems. 5. Mount /home and restore the files from home.tar 6. Reboot Linux and once the new /var is mounted restore the files from var.tar I'm not sure about the last point since during the booting process some info in /var might be needed. Also, if it works, what happpens to the files in the original /var (in /dev/hda)? I'd appreciate if someone can enlighten for me the right way to do this. Thank you, Pedro Ivan ---------- P.S. I overlooked giving /var its own partition when I first installed debian and it lives under the root partition. However /var/spool/mail is getting to big (to many users!) and that's why I need the extra space available in /dev/hdb.
