Mounting /var to new partation .

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  Created a new reiserfs partition for var on my HDD using gparted. Labelled it as "var"


• Rebooted to emergency mode and mounted it. (I remounted root as read-write)
  
  
  

   # mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/new_var

  
  


• Copied var contents to new_var
  
  
  

   # cd /var
   # cp -Rax * /mnt/new_var/
   # cd /
   # mv var var.old
   # umount /mnt/new_var
   # mkdir var
   # mount /dev/sda8 /var

  
  


• Added the following line to /etc/fstab