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Hi
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 06:28 +0200, Christian Hiris wrote:
> On Saturday 30 April 2005 01:59:01, Lisa Casey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I could have sworn I've seen some info on moving var onto it's own hard
> > drive but I vcan't  seem to find it now.
> >
> > Would anyone happen to know a url?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lisa
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK
> 
> Cheers,
> ch
> 

Hi, How I put various partitions on larger drives is
1.format the drive (some times /stand/sysintall, sometimes by hand)
2.mount the new drive some where as what ever. (mount /dev/ad3s1e /mnt)
3.Copy over the data from the folder ( usually use cpio)
4. change fstab to fit 
5. reboot
 as far as I know that is KISS (keep it simple stupid)