Holden Hao wrote:
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.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
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