On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 23:01 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: --snip-- > Has anyone done anything like this before, with success? i.e. do you > have a working procedure / script to share with me? I won't be able to > test the process, if it fails then I'm stuck yes, on line, with no issues on centos 5.4 just tested it again in a virtual machine, with no issues root at dhcp-204 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 3.7G 1.3G 2.3G 37% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 961M 43M 870M 5% /var /dev/hda1 99M 13M 82M 14% /boot tmpfs 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm [root at dhcp-204 ~]# lvextend -L +1G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 Extending logical volume LogVol02 to 1.97 GB Logical volume LogVol02 successfully resized [root at dhcp-204 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 3.7G 1.3G 2.3G 37% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 961M 43M 870M 5% /var /dev/hda1 99M 13M 82M 14% /boot tmpfs 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm [root at dhcp-204 ~]# resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Filesystem at /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 is mounted on /var; on-line resizing required Performing an on-line resize of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 to 516096 (4k) blocks. The filesystem on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 is now 516096 blocks long. [root at dhcp-204 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 3.7G 1.3G 2.3G 37% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 2.0G 43M 1.8G 3% /var /dev/hda1 99M 13M 82M 14% /boot tmpfs 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm [root at dhcp-204 ~]#