> 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] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
