Moving /var to same partition as /home possible? (disk space issue)

Hi,

our disk space is still growing and configured to only support a 20GB os partition and a nearly 2TB partition which is mounted on /home. We already put nearly every storage and non-relevant os objects in the /home directory to save disk space for the os partition, but /var is still using /dev/root which caused alot of space issues.

I saw this thread (Switch to a new partition ?) with nearly the same problem but I think the solution won't work in our situation, because we have to keep the files mounted as /dev/md3 on /home aswell, as you can see in the screenshot. We would like to mount /var - still working for i-mscp - to the same disk space, which is much bigger than our os partition. Is this possible in our current situation? Maybe @Nuxwin could help with a little information.

I'm hoping to fix every space issue after we relocated the /var area to the bigger disk.

Thanks for any help!

Our System Information:

Debian Jessie

i-MSCP 1.4.7
Build: 20170710
Codename: Zimmer

@flames

Thanks. I used google but unfortunately my OVH Server can't start in single user mode and the rescue mode can't be the solution (i can only mount one drive to /mnt/ and the steps above won't work in this case).
Are the steps above still okay in normal boot mode, so I can use i-mscp after?

Or should I just use the symlink variation?.

EDIT:


It worked right now. I used init 1 to get in single user mode because ovh doesn't support it from the interface. I followed the instructions from the first answer here (https://serverfault.com/questi…nother-existing-partition) to mount the new var folder to /home/var. Everything worked as expected and the disk issue is solved permanently after I deleted the /var.old folder.

Thanks to @flames. Problem is solved now. I wasn't sure if moving /var and mounting it would be possible so easily with i-mscp. But everything worked fine.