Re: hardisk full

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn <Fed19@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bilal Dar wrote:

Dear all,

 

I am having this problem, my harddrive got full so i added another one to my machine. Now i don't know how to move my /home /var to the new drive. Can someone guide me, i just made the partitions using fdisk.

 

Thanks.

What I do normally is:

# mkdir <newdrive>/var
# mv /home/var /home/var.old
# ln -s <newdrive>/var/home/var
# cd /home/var
# find . | cpio -dump <newdrive>/var
// you could also use tar nowadays for it
# reboot    // because of open file descriptors of /home/var
// then
// make a spare backup of /home/var.old, one never knows
# cd /home
# rm -rf var.old
// it should work now

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Vink