I am trying to setup Centos4.3 with specific partition, but i want to
have /var directory to have most of the storage i have, I have 250 Gig
SATA and let say i want to have 200 Gig on /var alone, how do i do
that? i have not done this before so i kindof reluctant to do it? did
anybody have step-by-step howto on how to do that?
right now, i have a running centos4.3 box with regular automatic
partition configuration now, is it also posible to modify the partition
now or i need to reinstall from the beginning? any inputs would be
appreciated it.

thanks alot.

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mike888@berlin.com wrote:

> I am trying to setup Centos4.3 with specific partition, but i want to
> have /var directory to have most of the storage i have, I have 250 Gig
> SATA and let say i want to have 200 Gig on /var alone, how do i do
> that? i have not done this before so i kindof reluctant to do it? did
> anybody have step-by-step howto on how to do that?
> right now, i have a running centos4.3 box with regular automatic
> partition configuration now, is it also posible to modify the
> partition now or i need to reinstall from the beginning? any inputs
> would be appreciated it.
>

I don't have any specific experience of Red Hat based systems (like
CentOS), but in general you'd create a new partition using (qt)parted
and mount the new partition to whichever mount point you wish
(e.g. /home, /var, /usr, etc). This can easily be done post install,
but you will need to move the old /var and copy it's contents to the
new /var before applying the new partitioning scheme.

The automatic mounting of partitions is detailed in the /etc/fstab file
and specifics of mount parameters can be found in the mount manpage.
HTH

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