On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Digimer <li...@alteeve.com> wrote: > On 10-07-11 02:27 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Hi, >> >> One of our servers has a too small root partition on LVM and needs to >> be resized. Can / be safely increased online, without a reboot? >> >> [r...@zaxen02 ~]# lvscan >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/root' [4.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/home' [20.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/var' [4.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/swap' [4.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/log' [1.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/webmin' [2.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/xenstored' [2.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/xensave' [2.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/opennation-net_img' [10.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/opennation-net_swap' [1.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/pluto_img' [100.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/pluto_swap' [1.00 GB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/LVM01/tmp' [5.00 GB] inherit >> [r...@zaxen02 ~]# pvscan >> PV /dev/md1 VG LVM01 lvm2 [232.69 GB / 76.69 GB free] >> Total: 1 [232.69 GB] / in use: 1 [232.69 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] >> [r...@zaxen02 ~]# > > It depends mainly on the filesystem you are using. The ext[3|4] > filesystems are fine. You'll have to extend the LV, and then separately > extend the filesystem itself. > > Please test this on a non-production server before trying it on your > live server, just to be safe and to be sure that you've got your syntax > right. > > -- > Digimer > E-Mail: li...@alteeve.com > AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com > Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org > _______________________________________________
The server runs on CentOS 5.5 with ext3 (don't trust ext4 yet). I don't have a test server setup for this, but it's a good idea to setup one with a similar partition layout and try it there first :) I just wanted to know whether it's safe for root to be resized without a reboot or not. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
