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Old 1st September 2009
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Default How to swap partitions Help

I made a mistake on my partition layout on my server:

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$ df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a      509M   38.8M    445M     8%    /
/dev/wd0h      182G   34.0K    173G     0%    /home
/dev/wd0d     1008M    2.0K    958M     0%    /tmp
/dev/wd0g      5.9G    2.3G    3.3G    41%    /usr
/dev/wd0f      3.9G    2.9G    911M    76%    /var
/dev/wd0e     98.4G   22.6M   93.5G     0%    /var/mysql
/dev/wd1a      291G    146K    277G     0%    /var/vmail
I need to swap /var and /home so /var can get the 182G slice of /home.
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just edit fstab. The rest entailed should be self explanatory.
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Here's something you can try:

1. boot into single-user mode.
2. cd /var ; dump 0af /home | restore xf -
3. cd /home ; dump 0af /var | restore xf -
4. interchange /var and /home mountpoints in fstab.
5. reboot to check if everthing works.
6. If (worked) : congrats! you can now rm -rf the redundant directories in /home and /var.
7. Else : revert the changes to fstab

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