[ale] moving /var

[Jeff Hubbs]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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?
>   
Single-user mode will still have files on /var open.  Boot the system to
a liveCD (e.g., Gentoo's), mount the partitions, and move stuff around.
> any other gotchas I should know about?
> this is a RedHat 3 update 6 Enterprise server.
None other than those associated with Red Hat as a given.