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Thanks for your thoughts. Why would i need Space at the beginning of the disk? Is there any need to have the new partition at the beginning? Why wouldnt it be possible to put the partition for /var/www after /home? Also, how should i resize the partition - do i have to fail/remove the partition from the traid first, resize it, put it back in?
– damaltor
Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 11:37
"the beginning of the disk" was badly worded - ignoring abstraction layers like LVM you can only extend partitions by adding to the end of the partition because - I believe - all major file systems have something akin to an index (which lists filenames and positions ) at the beginning of the partition. If you expad a partition at the beginning that index is suddenly in the wrong place.
– davidgo
Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 20:04
The order of mounting /var/www and /home is irrelevant - my solution was designed to free space at the correct place on disk.
– davidgo
Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 20:06
well, i wanted to shrink the partition, so it is probably fine. thanks anyways, you helped me out a bunch.
– damaltor
Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 20:06

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