[ale] moving /var

[Paul Cartwright]

I have a need to increase the size of a /var partition for someone. 
I've got info on adding the new drive, creating partitions, adding to fstab, 
relabeling partitions. What I'm not sure about is an active system partition 
like /var . Once I create the new partition on the new drive, will I have a 
problem copying all the files from /var to the new drive while the system is 
running? Will putting it in single user mode work?

any other gotchas I should know about?
this is a RedHat 3 update 6 Enterprise server.

thanks,
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800