Thankyou so much Ionut for the continuing help :-)
On 5/24/05, Ionut Georgescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please send fdisk -l /dev/hda. Judging by your /etc/fstab, you can't do > anything because you have /home and /tmp between /var and /var/log. The > best you cand do is to move /tmp and /var/log to /var and extend /home > :-) O.K here is it -------------------------------- # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4870 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 61 489951 83 Linux /dev/hda2 62 365 2441880 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 366 3404 24410767+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 3405 4870 11775645 5 Extended /dev/hda5 3405 3647 1951866 83 Linux /dev/hda6 3648 3890 1951866 83 Linux /dev/hda7 3891 3914 192748+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 3915 4870 7679038+ 83 Linux --------------------------------------------------------------------------- meanwhile I tried your steps on a similar but got stuck here # umount log umount: /var/log: device is busy > > I will describe the next steps anyway: > > First: ext3 must resized offline. Second, if you modify the partition > table while running you have to reboot anyway, because the kernel > cannot reload the partition table while the disk is being used. You can > combine these two into 2 steps: > > cp -r /var/log /home/log.bak > adjust partition table. delete the /var/log line in /etc/fstab > > reboot into single user mode > > What happens: after reboot, /dev/hda3 will be larger, but the filesystem > has not changed yet. Being in single user mode, no program is running > at all so you can just > umount /var > ext2resize /dev/hda3 > mount /var > done > > now you just need to copy log > mount -o remount,rw /home > rmdir /var/log > mv /home/log.bak /var/log > reboot > > Ionut Thanks a lot Io for the detailed explanation :-) Kind Regards Siju
