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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Brendan Minish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bminish@minish.org">bminish@minish.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">Rudi Ahlers wrote:<br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> Is it possible, safely, to resize /var while a server is running? I<br>> urgently need to resize a full 2GB /var on a running server which is<br>> located at a remote location where no one can get to it for 2 days?<br>
><br>> The system runs on lvm.<br><br></div>Growing on line EXT3 file systems on LVM has always worked ok for me.<br>shrinking needs to be done off line but growing on line File systems has<br>not given me any trouble to date.<br>
<br>I expect that the likelihood of problems with this is proportional to<br>the distance from your current location to the server though ;-)<br><br>regards<br>Brendan<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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<div>Hi Brendan, </div>
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<div>I've also safely grown LVM volumes online, but /var is a bit more trickey since a lot of stuff runs straight from it .So I don't want to attempt this if it's going to break the whole system.</div></div><br>
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