a workaround but not a good practice Michael Tinsay wrote: > > You could just symlink the fast growing /home subfolders. Like: > > ln -s /dbdata/<someone's homedir> /home/<the homedir you placed in > /dbdata> > > > > --- mike t. > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Peter Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:22:19 PM > Subject: Re: [plug] resizing an ext3 partition > > Holden Hao wrote: > >> by reducing the /dbdata partition. Most of the howto I've googled > uses a > >> live cd and rebooting the machine, is there a way to do it without > rebooting > >> the machine? Will turning off some services using the partition and > just > >> unmounting the said partition with the use of parted and tune2fs > suffice? > >> The machine is almost 2yrs up and we can't afford any downtime > cause by a > >> machine shutdown. > >> > > > > AFAIK, this is not possible. Resizing Ext2/3 requires resizing the > > partition and then resizing the Ext2/3 file system. After resizing > > the partition the kernel needs to know the new partition size so you > > need to reboot. I vaguely recall that there is a utility that can > > inform the kernel of the new partition but it may be hit or miss thing > > depending on the kernel you have running. > > > > > > > > Holden > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> (#PLUG @ > irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > The utility that Holden is referring to is the partprobe command. This > is available with Redhat. I'm not too sure about the other distros. > > -- > Peter Santiago [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My website: www.psinergybbs.com <http://www.psinergybbs.com> > My spamtrap address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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