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Hi all, As I've alluded to in the past, it is my intention to merge my existing mailserver and webserver into my existing fileserver... I only ever had them separated so that I could get one working without risking breaking the other. Now that I'm happy they all work nicely, I want to merge them. :) So, I've established that possibly the easiest thing to do would be find out what packages are installed on each server (done), and simply apt-get install the appropriate ones onto the target machine (it's already running Debian Stable). Moving the files from the webserver shouldn't be a problem - I tend to keep *everything* in /var/www so I only have one place to copy over. Here's my current crunch... On the target machine, I have a nice big harddrive with plenty of data on it, currently mounted at /mnt/200... ideally, I'd like to have that remounted as /var (because I'm gonna have /var/www, /var/shared on there shortly), however there are currently lots of files/directories on the existing /var directory. So, how can I duplicate the current /var structure onto the 200GB drive, remove the current /var structure and the remount the 200GB drive as /var... possibly without having to reboot? Or would something along these lines be infinitely easier to do using another system, such as Knoppix... ie boot to the other system, make the necessary changes, reboot back to the working system? Cheers. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html