Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-04 Thread roman . meier
Hi Dashamir, The reassigning seemed to finally work using: sudo lvresize -r -L-10G /dev/vg_system/skole+tjener+home0 sudo lvresize -r -L+10G /dev/vg_system/var Then I'm getting the following output: root@tjener:/skole/tjener/home0/roman# sudo vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name

Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-04 Thread roman . meier
Hi Petter, The following worked based on your suggestion: sudo lvresize -r -L-10G /dev/vg_system/skole+tjener+home0 sudo lvresize -r -L+10G /dev/vg_system/var I hope this was safe and nothing got lost on home0 ;) Kind regards, Roman > On 02/03/2023 9:04 AM GMT Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >

Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-03 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:43 AM wrote: > > sudo lvextend -L+5G /dev/vg_system/var > Insufficient free space: 1280 extents needed, but only 138 available > If you don't mind, can you share the output of the commands: sudo vgdisplay sudo lvdisplay If you just say "it doesn't work", without

Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Roman Meier] > However, extending the size of /var didn't work: > > sudo lvextend -L+5G /dev/vg_system/var > Insufficient free space: 1280 extents needed, but only 138 available I would strongly recommend not using lvextend, and instead use lvresize -r. I suspect the underlying LVM logical

Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-03 Thread roman . meier
Hi Petter, I wrote the email a bit too hastily. Sorry for causing this confusion. It's /var and not /dev. Again, I was able to nicely reduce the size of /skole/jener/home0. However, extending the size of /var didn't work: sudo lvextend -L+5G /dev/vg_system/var Insufficient free space: 1280

Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-02 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 9:30 PM wrote: > > As mentioned in my email, I was able to reduce the size of > /skole/jener/home0. I therefore logged in als root and unmounted > /skole/jener/home0. > This is usually done in two steps: first you resize (shrink) the filesystem, then you resize (shrink)

Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Roman Meier] > As mentioned in my email, I was able to reduce the size of > /skole/jener/home0. I therefore logged in als root and unmounted > /skole/jener/home0. OK, then I misunderstood. I read your email to say that you chould not find a way to reduce the size. > For unknown reasons this

Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-02 Thread roman . meier
Hi Petter, Thanks for your fast reply! As mentioned in my email, I was able to reduce the size of /skole/jener/home0. I therefore logged in als root and unmounted /skole/jener/home0. For unknown reasons this space is however not made available to be reassigned to /dev resulting in the error

Re: Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Roman Meier] > I have run out of storage on /var and I can't extend size because all > on the harddrive has been used already. > > I have about 50G unused space on /skole/jener/home0 but I find it > difficult to transfer storage from /skole/jener/home to /dev. I normally boot in single user,

Transfer storage from home to var

2023-02-02 Thread roman . meier
Hi folks, I have run out of storage on /var and I can't extend size because all on the harddrive has been used already. I have about 50G unused space on /skole/jener/home0 but I find it difficult to transfer storage from /skole/jener/home to /dev. I was able to reduce storage of