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? Thomas