Partition blues (what I need at end:-)

[Asheville Joe]

Here's ls -la /var/log (done as a user)

Joe

JJ Neff wrote:

>I did good and I did bad, and it gave me the blues baby oohhhh 
>
>The good was that I finally removed most every app off my Win98 install adn was
>able to completely format the D volume - this reclaimed over 5 GB on my game
>machine for Linux!  Now omne of the reasons I've locked up inthe past is a
>run-away /var/log file.  SO I figure HEY! I'll move /var/log to a smallish
>partition by itself and hopefully avoid locking up...
>
>I used MCC and diskdrake to delete the old vfat partition and create a 500MB
>reiser partition and when I chose /var/log as the mount point it popped up a
>box and said "You already have one do you want to move data?"  TO which I said
>YES.
>
>It seemed to work OK and even moved the data, unfortunately it appears to have
>moved only files NOT folders. (Or maybe I screwed up - read on)
>
>I then tried to create a ~4GB (I had used ~ 1 GB for a DOS partition in case I
>wanted to play with it...) /opt/data partition to put games in.  I tried to get
>it to move my whole /opt but it kept failing to create the resier fs and had
>all kinds of troubles.  After many attempts I finally had /var/log mounted on
>it's own partition (without folders) buit could not get the new large partition
>mounted.  I then rebooted!!!!
>MANY errors later I realized the folders were missing and causing all kinds of
>syslog.d errors in /var/log.  THen I got all kinds of bad sector or wrong fs
>type errors about /dev/hda6 (the /opt/data part).  I tried fdisk and no
>/dev/hda5 (var log) or /dev/hda6) I finally gave up last night and this morning
>when I rebooted I was dropped to recovery mode and had to manually create the
>small /dev/hda5 and large /dev/hda6 and mkresierfs them.  THen I was able to
>manually mount them as /mnt/tmp and check them.  I set up /etc/fstab abd
>rebooted OK!
>
>BUT -- My /var/log only has what gets created new each reboot (ie messages,
>syslog etc) NO subfolders.
>
>Can someone please send me the Mandrake 9.1 standard set of files and
>subfolders (ls -la of /var/log). I can then manually mkdir and touch the files.
>
>Or is there a better way (tm) 
>>From now on I'll just create this stuff manually from rescue disk :-)
>Thanks.
>
>JJN
>
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