[CentOS] shrink LV with ext3 filesystem
Thomas Antony
thomas at antony.eu
Tue Sep 4 18:18:18 UTC 2007
>> 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
I stopped all services except sshd and fuser and lsof doesn't show me
any files, but i still can't unmount /var :-(
# umount /var
umount: /var: device is busy
umount: /var: device is busy
Ayn ideas?
Thomas
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