I have one of those bright days and for the life of me can't think of how to proceed.
1) I made the following partitioning. /dev/hda5 50M (for /) /dev/hda6 100M (for SWAP) /dev/hda7 250M (for /var) /dev/hda8 550M (for /usr) /dev/hda9 550M (for /usr/local) /dev/hda10 1500M (for /home) 2) I installed the base on /dev/hda5 and I can boot with LILO from /dev/hda3. 3) hda7-10 all have a ext2 file system. Now my thoughts were to first move the contents from /var to /dev/hda7, then automount hda7 with an entry in /etc/fstab (/dev/hda7 /var defaults,auto 0 0). So I first mount /dev/hda7 on /mnt, then issue "cp /var /mnt" but the only thing that shows up on /mnt is lost+found. So forget about that then. I see a lot of people talking about sym-linking, but from where to where? Do I put this sym-link in /, /var, or on /dev/hda7? The content of /var still has to be moved to /dev/hda7 one way or another. Where do I go wrong? Hope somebody can tell me where my mind strays away from Unix-thinking. TIA Hans
