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] (#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] My website: www.psinergybbs.com My spamtrap address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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