On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Brendan Minish <bminish at minish.org> wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is it possible, safely, to resize /var while a server is running? I > > urgently need to resize a full 2GB /var on a running server which is > > located at a remote location where no one can get to it for 2 days? > > > > The system runs on lvm. > > Growing on line EXT3 file systems on LVM has always worked ok for me. > shrinking needs to be done off line but growing on line File systems has > not given me any trouble to date. > > I expect that the likelihood of problems with this is proportional to > the distance from your current location to the server though ;-) > > regards > Brendan > _______________________________________________ > > Hi Brendan, I've also safely grown LVM volumes online, but /var is a bit more trickey since a lot of stuff runs straight from it .So I don't want to attempt this if it's going to break the whole system. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100502/251c1383/attachment-0005.html>