On Friday 05 September 2003 10:53 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > Hi, > > I recently re-installed 9.1 in order to change from ext3 to ReiserFS and > took the opportunity to create a separate partition for /var. > I underestimated the space needed for /var and am now getting warning > messages on bootup about inadequate free space. > > What to do? Can I resize /var, taking space from /, say? Or have I got > to re-install all over again? > > TIA for advice.
I think that I did something like this recently. If you boot up in single user mode and kill all the daemons that use any /var partition, you should be able to back up the data, unmount it, resize the partition, format and then remount it and restore the data. Don't know about taking from / partition though, that one has to stay mounted unless you use a boot cd. Could do that with Knoppix but you would have to remount the drives and correct the fstab and such before rebooting from hd. I actually left a little empty space on both my hd's just in case I needed additional room the last time I installed. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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