On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:36:16PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine > as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with > no keyboard. Anyway it was unusable.) I thought it might be an initrd > problem, and had a half-baked memory that chrooting into the root > partition and running makeinitrd or somesuch would solve it. But as > usual I got errors from nonexistant /dev and /proc filesystems in the > chroot and so could not build a new initrd. So I copied /dev back > where it came from and reverted fstab and all was well. > > I might have been more persistent but had a slow (and expensive) i'net > connection so it was easier to give up. > > What should I have done? > > TIA Hi richard, most of the time /var/cache/apt/archives gets filled as it is where your debs are downloaded. About .5-1.5 GB should be ok to hold a few updates. Use 'clean' or 'autoclean' with aptitude when needed.
This is an untested example of how to solve this:
a) create /dev/hdb1 (new partition) with cfdisk
b) mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1 # format new partition
c) mount -t /dev/hdb1 /mnt # mount the new partition on a temporary
# mount point
d) mv /var/cache/apt/archives/* /mnt # move the files to the
# temporary mount point
e) umount /mnt # unmount temporary mount point
f) add this to /etc/fstab: # add new partition to fstab
/dev/hdb1 /var/cache/apt/archives ext3 defaults 0
1
g) mount -a # make mount command add the new
# mount point
h) check if all is ok with 'mount' # check if /var/hdb1 and
# /var/cache/apt/archives are listed
done. Next reboot will do this automatically.
Cheers,
Kev
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