What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

[Gerald Lightsey]

John Murphy said...

> I was pleased to read your question as I'll soon be building a PC for
experimenting with a MySQL database, and it highlighted the need for a
larger /var than I would have created.  Thanks :)

Thanks for pointing me to the questions area.  Nathan Kinkade over there
provided the direction I needed which might be of value to you.  The use of
tar to move the data followed by the edit of fstab seems to be the secret to
success.

> Here is quick rundown on how you could achieve your goal:

> 1) Mount the new disk at at /mnt with something like:
	# mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt
> 2) Copy everything from your original /var partition to the new one:
	# cd /var && tar cf - ./ | (cd /mnt && tar xvpf -)
> 3) Edit /etc/fstab from something like:
	/dev/ad0s1e		/var	ufs		defaults
1 2
	to:
	/dev/ad1s1a		/var	ufs		defaults
1 2
> 4) Unmount old partition from /var and mount new one at /var:
	# umount /var && mount /var

Actually step #3 automatically took care of step #4 for me.

Gerald