On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 07:08 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
On 11/30/06, Ferdinando Santacroce jesus_was_rasta@yahoo.it wrote:
Hi all.. On my little test server I have 40GB hard disk. I use LVM2, with 4 partitons: /boot, /home, /usr, /var I set Apache to work in /var/www. Now I added a 30GB hard disk to extend /var. I regularly extended my volume group and the logical volume where /var stay. Now I need to umount /var to run a resize2fs to extend the /var partiton, but I see ever the same message: "device is busy" I tried to switch to runlevel 1, but no luck. My var uses quota, and the fs is ext3.
Hi, it only comes to my mind, i am not sure this is the right way to do it, but have you tried with a rescue CD?
That is my thoughts too .. as /var is going to be hard to clean out after a normal boot.
(the logs open there, the locks dir is there, etc.)
You might be able to use either:
lsof | grep var
or
fuser -m /var
But in my experience ... making all the /var stuff let go is not so easy.