[ILUG] move mount point

[Patton, Tony]

Thanks, went with Kate's instructions, done and dusted.

Thanks

--On 12 February 2002 12:15 +0000 "John P. Looney" <john at antefacto.com> 
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:00:43PM -0000, Patton, Tony mentioned:
>> How do I move a directory to another partition?
>>
>> what I want to do is move /var/log to /dev/sdf1.
>>
>> The current mount points are like this :
>>
>> > [root at mis /root]# mount
>> > /dev/sde1 on / type ext2 (rw)
>> > none on /proc type proc (rw)
>> > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
>> > /dev/sdc1 on /home type ext2 (rw)
>> > /dev/sdb1 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
>> > /dev/sdd1 on /var type ext2 (rw)
>> > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
>> > /dev/md0 on /mnt/raid type ext2 (rw)
>> > /automount(pid773) on /misc type autofs
>> (rw,fd=5,pgrp=773,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
>> > /dev/sdf1 on /mnt/f2 type ext2 (rw)
>
>  mv /var/log /var/oldlog
>  mkdir /var/log
>  mount /dev/sdf1 /var/log
>  /etc/init.d/sysklogd stop
>  mv /var/oldlog/* /var/log
>  /etc/init.d/sysklogd start
>
>  The idea is that sysklogd will keep file handles on those old logs files
> until you stop sysklogd, so once you change what /var/log/messages points
> to, you have restart.
>
> Kate
>
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