On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 09:18, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com 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.
/var-tst exists, so that's the problem? The man page for mount states that it will create the necessary /dev loopback device if it isn't specified. Currently there are no loopback devices in the system, and the loop kernel module is loaded.
The default scheme has /var as a directory. Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename `/newvar` to `/var` and edit fstab.
I may have to do that as /var is too central to booting even in single- user mode.
poc