Hi ! I have a Red Hat 8.0 on a intel 2.4 machine with 512 MB . I have kernel 2.4.20-30.8-legacy & 2.4.20-30.8-legacy bigmem. I used to have all my directories /var , /tmp , /usr , /home under one partition / . Thanks to everybody , now I was able to re-partition my drive into extended drives (drives < 4) and move my /var , /tmp into hda5 & ,my /usr , /home into /hda6 . Bu I am facing one problem. When I boot my system logger does not see the /var/log which has been moved to the new location . The system just hangs . When I boot in single mode by passing an argument to my kernel that does show in the dmesg in the new location . In addtion when I run a command like 'clear ' it shows that it could not find the library to run it . I have mounted hda5 & hda6 in my fstab . I did create soft link for my new var , new tmp & new usr to the the /var , /tmp , /usr as ffs :- ln -s /mnt/hda5/var /var ln -s /mnt/hda5/tmp /tmp ln -s /mnt/hda6/usr /usr I moved the old files using the ff commands:- cd source directory cp -ax * /mnt/usr5/var or cd /src/dir ; tar cf - . | (cd /dest/dir && tar xvf - ) But still it does not work . Please find attached the dmesg & library error and fstab. Please advice. Thank you for your help in advance. bj