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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users moving space from one partition to another Post 7281 by eddie on Sunday 23rd of September 2001 09:55:30 PM
Old 09-23-2001
Do you mean your /var is growing bigger and you want to mount it on another larger partition? If yes, you just need to change /etc/fstab.

For example, you currently have,

mount /dev/sda1 /var

and /dev/sda1 doesn't have enough space. So you just change like this, (if /dev/sdb1 is a larger partition)

mount /dev/sda1 /var
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
cp /var /mnt -r

then change /etc/fstab to,

/dev/sdb1 /var

then reboot. Hope this helps.

Or you want to cut out some space from a mounted partition and give it to another partition? Is this possible?
Last edited by eddie; 09-23-2001 at 10:59 PM..
 

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tgt-setup-lun

tgt-setup-lun(8)					      System Manager's Manual						  tgt-setup-lun(8)

NAME

       tgt-setup-lun - creates a target, adds a device to the target and defines initiators that can connect to the target

SYNOPSIS

       tgt-setup-lun -d device -n target_name [initiator_IP1 initiator_IP2 ...] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       Starts tgtd if necessary and creates a target according to the supplied target_name. The format of the target name is as follows:
       iqn.2001-04.com.<hostname>-<target_name> The target name must be unique.

       The  script then adds the requested device to the target. If specific IP addresses are defined, it adds them to the list of allowed initia-
       tors for that target. If no IP addresses is defined, it defines that the target accepts any initiator.

EXAMPLES

       Create a target that uses /dev/sdb1 and allows connections only from 192.168.10.81:
       tgt-setup-lun -d /dev/sdb1 -n my_target 192.168.10.81

       Create a target that uses /dev/sdb1 and allows connections only from 192.168.10.81 and 192.168.10.82:
       tgt-setup-lun -d /dev/sdb1 -n my_target 192.168.10.81 192.168.10.82

       Create a target that uses /dev/sdb1 and allows connections from any initiator:
       tgt-setup-lun -d /dev/sdb1 -n my_target

       Display help:
       tgt-setup-lun -h

AUTHOR

       Written by Erez Zilber

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <erezz@voltaire.com>.

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       Copyright (C) Voltaire Ltd. 2008.

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