moving dir /var from one drive to another

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 09:22, James D. Parra wrote:
> Thank you very much. 
> 
> Actually, I want to move /var to the system drive (from slave to master
> drive, so everything will be on a single drive.)
> 
> How do I boot into single user mode? Will the file system be read-only?
> After moving /var and removing its mount entry in "fstab" will the system
> reboot correctly? As you can see, I am a little nervous. This server is a
> production server.
> 
> Thank you, again,
> 
> James 

Installation CD, choose "linux rescue" to boot.

If you remove the /var entry from /etc/fstab but have the /var directory
off of the root of the main drive, you'll still be right.

stephen kuhn - owner
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