Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:07:56 -0600 From: Ed Stover <estover@nativenerds.com> To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving /var Message-ID: <1114844876.43873.9.camel@red.nativenerds.com> In-Reply-To: <200504300628.41565.4711@chello.at> References: <001001c54d17$75563e20$14d71840@lisakc> <200504300628.41565.4711@chello.at>
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Hi On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 06:28 +0200, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Saturday 30 April 2005 01:59:01, Lisa Casey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I could have sworn I've seen some info on moving var onto it's own hard > > drive but I vcan't seem to find it now. > > > > Would anyone happen to know a url? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Lisa > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK > > Cheers, > ch > Hi, How I put various partitions on larger drives is 1.format the drive (some times /stand/sysintall, sometimes by hand) 2.mount the new drive some where as what ever. (mount /dev/ad3s1e /mnt) 3.Copy over the data from the folder ( usually use cpio) 4. change fstab to fit 5. reboot as far as I know that is KISS (keep it simple stupid)
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