Hi,
Something I haven't done before is reduce the number of volumes on my server.. Here is my current disk setup..
[root@server1 /]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-RootVol00 15G 1.5G 13G 11% / /dev/md0 190M 42M 139M 24% /boot /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-DataVol00 39G 16G 22G 42% /data none 157M 0 157M 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-HomeVol00 77G 58G 15G 80% /home /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-VarVol00 16G 382M 15G 3% /var
Rather than try and reduce the size of the VarVol00 volume to make more unallocated space which I have heard is a little dangerous.. I would like to get rid of the VarVol00 and have the /var directory on the RootVol00 volume.. Then I can allocate some of the free space to HomeVol00 which is filling up..
So how do I do this?
Do I simply copy /var to /var2 and then edit the /etc/fstab file to remove the line that mounts VarVol00??
Then at what point and how do I rename /var2 to /var to get it all working as normal again?
Should this all be done in "single" mode?
As you can see I am really not sure about this procedure so any help or step by step instructions for be great..
Thanks..