On Sun, 2019-08-18 at 08:06 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 17Aug2019 12:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 09:38 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > > Really, all you need to do is to remove the /var fstab entry, umount
> > > the
> > > existing /var mount, rsync /newvar BA
On 17Aug2019 12:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 09:38 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Really, all you need to do is to remove the /var fstab entry, umount
the
existing /var mount, rsync /newvar BACK INTO the stub /var mountpoint
which is there, scrub /newvar.
/var cannot b
On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 17:59 +0200, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 12:01:01 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I did finally solve it following the suggestion from
> > francis.montag...@inria.fr (adding rd.break=pre-pivot to the boot line,
> > then remounting /sy
Hi.
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 12:01:01 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I did finally solve it following the suggestion from
> francis.montag...@inria.fr (adding rd.break=pre-pivot to the boot line,
> then remounting /sysroot etc.)
Correction: that was a suggestion of Tony Nelson (thanks for this t
On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 09:38 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Aug2019 13:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
> > own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've copied
> > /var to /newvar with rsync, and now wan
On 16Aug2019 13:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've copied
/var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as /var on
reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fsta
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:11:09 +0100
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > That was the first thing I tried, but I can't rename /newvar to /var as
> > /var is "in use" and of course can't be unmounted.
>
> That sort of thing is what live media wa
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 11:03 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 19-08-16 09:25:36, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12:06 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> > > > Can you boot from live media? If
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:26 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> On 8/16/19 6:09 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:29 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:18:03 +0100
> > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > >
> > > > PS Suggestions on how to move /var without all th
On 8/16/19 6:09 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:29 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:18:03 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
PS Suggestions on how to move /var without all this jiggery-pokery are
also welcome.
What you want is a "bind" mount. Something l
On 19-08-16 09:25:36, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote:
Hi.
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12:06 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
>> Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename
`/newvar` to
>> `/var` and edit fstab.
> I
Hi.
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12:06 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
>> Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename `/newvar` to
>> `/var` and edit fstab.
> I may have to do that as /var is too central to booting even in
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:11:09 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> That was the first thing I tried, but I can't rename /newvar to /var as
> /var is "in use" and of course can't be unmounted.
That sort of thing is what live media was invented for :-).
Boot off a live USB stick, mount the system dis
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 09:18, Patrick O'Callaghan
> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
> > own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've copied
> > /var to /newvar with
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 22:25 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 13:18 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
> > own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've
> > copied /var to /newvar with rsync,
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:29 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:18:03 +0100
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > PS Suggestions on how to move /var without all this jiggery-pokery are
> > also welcome.
>
> What you want is a "bind" mount. Something like this:
>
> /zooty/home
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 09:18, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
> own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've copied
> /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as /var on
> reboot by creating an e
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 13:18 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
> own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've
> copied /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as
> /var on reboot by creating a
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:18:03 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> PS Suggestions on how to move /var without all this jiggery-pokery are
> also welcome.
What you want is a "bind" mount. Something like this:
/zooty/home /home nonerw,bind 0 0
I use this to put
I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've copied
/var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as /var on
reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using /var-tst
for testing):
/newv
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