On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jan de Groot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 16:03 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Am 20.07.2010 17:59, schrieb Dan McGee: >> >> We also do not have enough room to dump and reload a second copy of >> >> the DB. Any ideas on this, anyone? We didn't think very straight when >> >> we were sizing /var on a DB machine... >> > >> > If you need more space, just say the word. >> >> Is it a resizable volume, and can you do it when it is online? I don't >> know completely how you guys set up the root partitions on the >> hypervisor. >> >> If we could get another 5-10 GB for /var on gudrun that would be >> great. We could definitely scale back what we have for / on both boxes >> by 2-3 GB, and /srv on gerolde has the biggest allotment of course. > > You have to take the whole VM down to resize LVM volumes from outside > the VM. Another thing is that shrinking volumes is not the easiest > thing.
I thought that as well. That wouldn't be the end of the world; we've done downtime before, but unless we have free space that isn't already allocated that does make this tough, right? -Dan
