I had a similar problem and I found the Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO to be much helpful.
I hope that such a reference is acceptable by you, though it is not a direct answer. Some few weeks ago someone replied to me quite rudely when I answered him this way. I find such references to be of much help and do not mind that people will answer to me like that. > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because > I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have > to modify to make sure things go smoothly? > > I assume I'll have to change fstab. But then do I have to move all contents > of the current /var to the new /var? Could I create the new partition using > a temporary name, move all the /var stuff to it, then rename it to /var? > > Thanks. > -- > David J. Kanter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian 2.1 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >