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). -- lfr 0/0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070904/e1fb9035/attachment-0004.sig>