From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outbound04.telus.net ([199.185.220.223] helo=priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DH0PS-00034i-00 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:12:34 -0500 Received: from Jaguar ([205.206.153.179]) by priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050331141203.CAC18097.priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net@Jaguar> for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:12:03 -0700 From: "Steve Dawes" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:10:24 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <000201c535ac$466b95b0$0d00a8c0@Saidar> Subject: RE: moving /var and /home to a new partition X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sdawes@telus.net, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:12:34 -0000 Adding the new mount point to fstab is quite easy. What I do is: 1. mount the new partitions 2. make sure it is working the way you want it too. 3. read /etc/mtab and look for the entry related to the new mount partition. 4. copy the related entry from mtab into fstab. Note, I do not type the entry into fstab, I read the entry in using with my editor to avoid any chance of mistyping it. Steve Steve Dawes Calgary Canada. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:44 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: moving /var and /home to a new partition Hi Ganina and others; I ended up doing a command like this: mount /dev/hda4 /mnt cd /var rsync -a * /mnt >>From reading the man page on rsync it seems that using the -a parameter is like using recursive, simlinks, preserve owner, group, device. Took some reading on using labels in fstab but I think I got it right. I just don't know where to make the needed modifications so that I don't edit fstab directly to add the new /var partition. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup