Moving VAR folder to another drive

[mark_bayliss]

Hey All,

We are running Fedora 8 in VMware ESX and have a raw mapping (LUN) assigned to it. Everything has been installed no problems.

Now I wish to move the var folder to the new drive which is also not formatted.

1. How do I format the additional drive? Then
2. How do I move the VAR folder permanently without losing any data and preserving the existing permissions?

My linux skills are limited but do I have experience in other areas.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rgards,

Mark

[bigtomrodney]

You can format the drive using either fdisk, mkfs, or any graphical application such as Gparted. Fedora itself may include a formatting tool. After that it's a simple matter of synchronising the data to the new location - I recommend rsync or tar for this job to preserve permissions.

Once that has been achieved you can add an entry in /etc/fstab for /var. You will need to find out the device name or blkid of the new partition/drive. To get started you might consider installing Gparted through Yum and formatting your drive - ext3 should be fine for this purpose.

[mark_bayliss]

You can format the drive using either fdisk, mkfs, or any graphical application such as Gparted. Fedora itself may include a formatting tool. After that it's a simple matter of synchronising the data to the new location - I recommend rsync or tar for this job to preserve permissions.

Once that has been achieved you can add an entry in /etc/fstab for /var. You will need to find out the device name or blkid of the new partition/drive. To get started you might consider installing Gparted through Yum and formatting your drive - ext3 should be fine for this purpose.

Thanks for the reply.

I was looking at LVM - does this apply to what I wish to achieve?

Cheers,

Mark