Casey Bralla on 14 Oct 2018 14:04:51 -0700


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[PLUG] Disk is Full. How to Move /var?

Okay, this should be a simple problem, but I'm stumped.

My 200 GByte SSD on my Gentoo system is 99.5% full (sometimes hits 100%,
but I've been erasing as much as I can).  I also have a 1 TByte HDD in
the system for regular files.  I thought I could move  the /var from the
SSD to HDD and open some space, but I'm having some trouble.

If I created a separate partition on the HDD, I could add the partition
in /etc/fstab without any problem, but since there already is a file
system on HDD that fills the whole disk, I wanted to simply move the
/var directory there.  However, when I tried to symlink, it seems to
have completely ignored my command.

Here's what I did:
1.  Created "/HDDdisk/var" directory on the HDD.
2.  Copied everything from "/var" to "/HDDdisk/var".
3.  "sudo ln -s /HDDdisk/var   /var"


The result:  Nothing.  /var is still on the SSD and did not move.

What am I doing wrong
What else can I do to relocate files to the HDD from the SSD (I've
already moved /home).

TIA!

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