On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Felix mwai
<flxxmw@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Benard, Do you think some services might stop working if i completely migrate the entire var to the external hard disk?
Drop to single user mode
Mount the new filesystem on whatever mountpoint you wish (let's call it /bigstore)
mkdir /bigstore/var
cd /
dump -L0af - /var | (cd /bigstore/var; restore -rf -)
umount /var
vi /etc/fstab and comment it out
ln -s /bigstore/var /var
reboot into multiuser mode
I hope Linux supports growfs so you could reclaim the partition you just umounted into /
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Regards
Felix Mwai
Software Developer.
Mobile 0720453684.
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