On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 13:18 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've copied /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as /var on reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using /var-tst for testing):
/newvar /var-tst ext4 loop 0 0
but I'm getting:
mount: /var-tst: failed to setup loop device for /newvar.
If you've done what I think, made a new directory inside the system root, and copied your old /var partition contents, then all you should need to do is remove the old /var mount point, rename your new var directory to just var, and let the OS use a /var directory inside /