On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > heh, there's plenty space left on the drive: > > > > [root at zaxen02 ~]# pvscan > > PV /dev/md1 VG LVM01 lvm2 [232.69 GB / 141.69 GB free] > > Total: 1 [232.69 GB] / in use: 1 [232.69 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > > > > As far as I know, one needs to unmount a volume in order to resize it, > but > > /var can't be unmounted. > > With LVM you don't need to unmount /var. You can do it on a running > system with the following caveats: > > 1) You'll need some free space on /var. I.e., not extra space in the > volume group, but a little extra space in the /var partition itself. > In other words, don't try to resize a completely full /var partition. > > 2) There is a possibility that you'll need to resize some metadata. If > so, this has to be done offline via a boot disk for /var. > _______________________________________________ > That's exactly as I thought :) For now, a safer way around this, I moved the /var/lib/xend/saved folder to it's own LVM volume, and re-mounted it on /var/lib/xend. So now /var has 1.4GB free space from 2GB > -- > 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/e91cfa01/attachment-0005.html>