On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
Boot to a live disk.
Use resize2fs to shrink the current partition,
resize2fs will only shrink the filesystem, not the partition. You'll
still have to use fdisk or gparted for making the partition a bit
larger than the
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Robert Citek robert.ci...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
Boot to a live disk.
Use resize2fs to shrink the current partition,
resize2fs will only shrink the filesystem, not the partition. You'll
still have
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Robert Citek robert.ci...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
Boot to a live disk.
Use resize2fs to shrink the current partition,
resize2fs
Thanks all for the ideas and input! I think creating a test environment and
ironing out all the details is very important and smart thing to do.
Another idea, since there's no hot spare hard drives is to install a new
hard drive partitioned they way I want it and move everything over to it.
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.) wrote:
Another idea, since there's no hot spare hard drives is to install a new
hard drive partitioned they way I want it and move everything over to it.
Repartition the old hard drive, clone/mirror the new drive to the old
drive and keep it as a hot
One of the of the worst nightmares of a new incoming SysAdmin has to be
having the server not be accessible because the previous SysAdmin thought
it was good idea to only have a root partition and then some backup script
fails and spools up on the local drive, or there's a bug, virus, etc and /
I usually have /var/ and /home separate from the root install.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:24 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
mike.conn...@albertagrocery.coop wrote:
One of the of the worst nightmares of a new incoming SysAdmin has to be
having the server not be accessible because the previous
I don’t always separate out /home (depends on if space is tight and I will need
/home to be able to take advantage of that space flexibly), but definitely
separate out /tmp and /var.
Most systems I’ve worked on have some downtime available, so if you are in a
five-nines situation, this might
Can you expand on the description of your environment? Do you have
two servers (one with the single partition and another with multiple
partitions)?
-- I wish it was only 1 server that was set up this way, but unfortunately
it is two servers and they both only have 1 hard drive and 1 large /
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
mike.conn...@albertagrocery.coop wrote:
Can you expand on the description of your environment? Do you have
two servers (one with the single partition and another with multiple
partitions)?
-- I wish it was only 1 server that was set up
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
mike.conn...@albertagrocery.coop wrote:
Can you expand on the description of your environment? Do you have
two servers (one with the single partition and another with
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