[CentOS] shrink LV with ext3 filesystem
Luciano Rocha
strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Tue Sep 4 13:35:53 UTC 2007
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:26:53PM +0200, Thomas Antony wrote:
> Luciano Rocha schrieb:
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:40:24PM +0200, Thomas Antony wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I want to make a snapshot from a logical volume and noticed that there
> >> must be enough free disk space in the volume group. Actually there is no
> >> free disk space left.
> >> How do i shrink online /var without losing any data or restore from
> >> backup?
> > You can't shrink ext2/ext3 filesystems online. You'll have to schedule a
> > downtime.
> > Another solution is to remove and use a file for swap (swapoff ... &&
> > lvremove ...), or reduce it (swapoff ... && lvreduce ... && mkswap &&
> > swapon).
>
> Hi.
>
> Is it possible that i log into the server with ssh and umount only /var and
> then resize the logical volume?
Yes, but you'll have to stop a lot of daemons and other processes that
run with files opened in /var.
You can find the processes accessing /var with lsof or fuser:
# fuser -mv /var
# lsof /var
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