What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

[Gerald Lightsey]

Nathan Kinkade said...
> Here is quick rundown on how you could achieve your goal:
> 
> 1) Mount the new disk at at /mnt with something like:
> 	# mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt
> 2) Copy everything from your original /var partition to the new one:
> 	# cd /var && tar cf - ./ | (cd /mnt && tar xvpf -)
> 3) Edit /etc/fstab from something like:
> 	/dev/ad0s1e		/var	ufs		defaults
1 2
> 	to:
> 	/dev/ad1s1a		/var	ufs		defaults
1 2
> 4) Unmount old partition from /var and mount new one at /var:
> 	# umount /var && mount /var
> 
> Also, you may want to reallocate the partition formerly mounted at /var
for something else?

Your advice was right on thank you very much.  Actually step #4 was
automatically handled by step #3.

Regarding reallocation of space formerly occupied by /var on /dev/ad0s2d, is
there a way to reallocate it back to one of the other existing partitions or
do you mean only to use it as is for something else?

Gerald