On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:47:10PM +1100, Simon Bryan wrote:
> HI all
> I am constantly having trouble with the /var partition on a rh7.2 server. It
> runs Dans Gaurdian and Squid. The following is the output from df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6             372M  106M  247M  31% /
> /dev/hda1              45M  5.9M   37M  14% /boot
> /dev/hda3             9.4G  227M  8.6G   3% /home
> none                  219M     0  219M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda2              26G  6.6G   17G  27% /usr
> /dev/hda7             251M  238M  664k 100% /var
> 
> Question: Is it possible to repartition a live system and move some of the
> space on the /usr partition over to /var?
> If so what utility(ies) could I use?

You don't need to repartition.  I suspect you could
just swap /var and /home:

1. boot single user.
2. clean out /home as much as possible
3. cd /home; mkdir oldhome; mv * oldhome
4. cd /var; cp -a . /home
5. edit /etc/fstab, make /home /var and vice versa
6. reboot, into single user again.
7. cd /var/oldhome; cp -a . /home
8. reboot
9. if everything looks ok, rm -r /var/oldhome

Matt
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