How to change var folder to a new mounted raid 1 drive on Centos 6 x64

Adil Boyun · 11-20-2011, 05:49 PM

Hello,

I have a raid 1, 3 tb disk running on centos 6 64 bit fresh install.
My sistem is installed on a different 120 gb ssd disk.

With awesome help at LQ, I finally made the raid drive run, now what i want is to mount it now as /var folder, instead of current one at ssd. My aim with this is to run plesk vhost files on my 3 tb disk, and happily store data here since scriptalias for cgi-bin and changing root directory for plesk is kinda method i didnt like.

Is this possible and something good to go?

At this link you can have more information on my configuration.

Best regards,

kbp · 11-21-2011, 04:08 PM

Code:

- boot to single user mode
- mount the new volume to a temporary location
- rsync -av /var/ /mnt/newvar/
- edit /etc/fstab, comment out current /var and add a new line using the new volume
- reboot
- if everything looks good, reclaim the space :-
   - reboot to single user
   - unmount /var
   - rm -rf /var/*
   - reboot

Adil Boyun · 11-21-2011, 04:39 PM

this method didn't work since i wasn't able to take a good snapshot of variables at var folder