That's reassuring to know (and I'm saving your email). The time I ended up reloading the system I was trying to resize /var. I took it down to single-user and issued the umount, which barfed on me (fuser said that "mount" had /var. Joy.) Anyway, a lazy unmount worked, but shortly after I tried the resize2fs, the word "handbasket" jumped into my mind.
At the moment, it looks like the suggestion to mount the new file system at /var/mysql might be the way to go. Thanks, Jon <snip> It's easy. Shut down to single user mode (telinit S). mount /dev/lvmwhatever /mnt cp -a /var/* /mnt umount /mnt umount /var mount /dev/lvmwhatever /var edit /etc/fstab to find /var on /dev/lvmwhatever telinit 3 (or whatever the default runlevel is) </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
