Partitioning done. And then?

[Hans van den Boogert <hansfong@mail.geocities.com>]

I have one of those bright days and for the life of me can't think of how
to proceed.

1) I made the following partitioning.
   /dev/hda5 50M (for /)
   /dev/hda6 100M (for SWAP)
   /dev/hda7 250M (for /var)
   /dev/hda8 550M (for /usr)
   /dev/hda9 550M (for /usr/local)
   /dev/hda10 1500M (for /home)
2) I installed the base on /dev/hda5 and I can boot with LILO from /dev/hda3.
3) hda7-10 all have a ext2 file system.

Now my thoughts were to first move the contents from /var to /dev/hda7,
then automount hda7 with an entry in /etc/fstab (/dev/hda7  /var
defaults,auto   0    0). 

So I first mount /dev/hda7 on /mnt, then issue "cp /var /mnt" but the only
thing that shows up on /mnt is lost+found.

So forget about that then. I see a lot of people talking about sym-linking,
but from where to where? Do I put this sym-link in /, /var, or on
/dev/hda7? The content of /var still has to be moved to /dev/hda7 one way
or another. Where do I go wrong? Hope somebody can tell me where my mind
strays away from Unix-thinking. TIA

Hans