WipeOut wrote: > Hi, > > Something I haven't done before is reduce the number of volumes on my > server.. Here is my current disk setup.. > > [root at 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? It depends (as always). You need to unmount /var Perhaps this can be done in single user mode. If not (some services still running that have files open) than just use rescue mode. # something like this: rsync -av /var/ /var2 telinit s umount /var rmdir /var (it's probably empty) mv /var2 /var vi /etc/fstab telinit 3 (or 5) To my understanding sometimes it is possible to resize live ext3 filesystems. (No experience myself). In that case you could simply do something like this: resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/VarVol00 2G lvreduce -L2G /dev/VolGroup00/VarVol00 I would still prefer to do this when the disk is unmounted and checked (e2fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/VarVol00). But in that case you of course get rid of the partition VarVol00 anyhow. Theo