On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 07:08 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > On 11/30/06, Ferdinando Santacroce <jesus_was_rasta at 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061130/ac89e4d0/attachment-0005.sig>