Am Montag, den 19.09.2011, 19:15 -0400 schrieb Johnny Tan: > Anyway, here's the real issue with LVM, at least in CentOS-6: > You would deal with the same issues in older lvm versions. > [root at jttest ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/vg_main-lv_root > 1548144 1548144 0 100% / > Do i read that correctly and 1548144 1K Blocks are about 1,5G of Root File System? Please tell me you have a seperated /var for log files. If not, for production use, install a tool which gives you a warning when reaching the 5% Level. > [root at jttest ~]# lvextend -L 2G /dev/vg_main/lv_root > /etc/lvm/archive/.lvm_jttest.pp.local_5523_51321310: write error > failed: No space left on device > Volume group "vg_main" metadata archive failed. > /etc/lvm/cache/.cache.tmp: write error failed: No space left on device > > So I can't extend a logical volume if there's no space in /etc? lvm tries to be helpfull if you ran into a power failure and can then recover due his tmp files in /etc. > Granted, I only need to delete like 2k worth of files in the same > logical volume as /etc to make the above work, but I don't recall > lvresize or lvextend requiring space in /etc to do a resize. Has this > always been the case? I don't have any 5.x servers handy to test this > with. Can anyone verify? > You will have the same problem, i think this procedure is the same in all lvm2 versions, which seems a long time now. > If this is new, this seems less-than-ideal. /etc itself rarely fills > up, so, in theory, I could make it its own LV, but that's even less > ideal. For now, I'll stick to deleting just enough to do the > extend/resize. > This is why the older unix guys always seperate stuff from / which could fill up the root file system. ;) -- Stefan Held VI has only 2 Modes: obi unixkiste org The first one is for beeping all the time, FreeNode: foo_bar the second destroys the text. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- perl -e'map{print pack c,($|++?1:13)+ord,select$,,$,,$,,$|}split//,ESEL.$/' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------