Re: [TriLUG] LVM issue - Making /var larger

[Joseph Tate]

If you boot using a rescue disk, or into linux single user mode, you can 
run commands on /var without it being mounted.  To do it from grub, just 
append single to your standard boot configuration.  The var partition is 
used for such things as your web site, logs, rpm databases as well as 
data for just about every program.  You can use du -h /var to see what 
all is there.

Joseph

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I recently did a fresh installation on my home
computer (RH 9).  I used the LVM option during
installation and set it up with a 500M /var
partition.  I figured this would be large enough.
So here is my issue.  I had a problem using rpm
and discovered that my /var partition is almost
full.  I am not sure why the /var partition is so
full.  However, I wanted to increase the size. 
But to increase the size, the directions I read
said I needed to umount the fs before changing the
size.  Well, I know I cannot  umount the /var
partition.  So can someone tell me how to increase
the size of the LVM /var partition.  Thanks.

-Scot

 

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