[newbie] Moving /var/www to different drive

2002-11-18 Thread Todd Slater
I have an extra hard drive and I'm thinking about using it for /var/www or /var/ftp. I already have those on /, obviously. Is there any problem if I rename /var/www something like /var/www2, then make the 2nd hard drive /var/www, and copy stuff from the old to the new? Todd Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Moving /var/www to different drive

2002-11-18 Thread Stormjumper
i think what you suggested works i was doing that not too long ago, albeit with a slightly diff method. 1. mount the new hdd in a temp location, eg /mnt/new_hd 2. stop apache and a couple of personal crons that worked on /var/www 3. copy the stuff from /var/www to /mnt/new_hd 4. move /var/www to