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Neil Stone wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > >> On the target machine, I have a nice big harddrive with plenty of data >> on it, currently mounted at /mnt/200... ideally, I'd like to have that >> remounted as /var (because I'm gonna have /var/www, /var/shared on there >> shortly), however there are currently lots of files/directories on the >> existing /var directory. >> >> So, how can I duplicate the current /var structure onto the 200GB drive, >> remove the current /var structure and the remount the 200GB drive as >> /var... possibly without having to reboot? > > OK, this is actually easier that you might think... > > in /mnt/200 put 2 directories "www" and "shared" > > $ mkdir /mnt/200/www > $ mkdir /mnt/200/shared > > then make a symlink in /var to these directories in turn. > > $ ln -fs /mnt/200/www /var/www > $ ln -fs /mnt/200/shared /var/shared > > Who says GNU/Linux was hard ?? (don't forget the config files in /etc) > > HTH > > Neil Thanks Neil, but I would rather not use symlinks if I can get away with it. I don't want, in the future say, to have to create more symlinks because things default to /var/somethingorother. I'm trying to keep the whole of my /var hierarchy on a single filesystem. Cheers though. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html