On Saturday 24 February 2007 10:30, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le samedi 24 février 2007 09:58, Justin Hartman a écrit : > > Hi guys > > > > I must say I'm a little confused here. In the past I just created one > > large partition for my debian install but for this one machine I setup > > seperate partitions using LVM. I may be way off the mark here but I > > thought that with lvm I could resize partitions if it ran out of > > space? > > > > My current filesystem looks like this: > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/debian-root 268M 268M 0 100% / > > tmpfs 249M 0 249M 0% /lib/init/rw > > udev 10M 64K 10M 1% /dev > > tmpfs 249M 0 249M 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/hda1 236M 24M 200M 11% /boot > > /dev/mapper/debian-home > > 27G 4.8G 21G 19% /home > > /dev/mapper/debian-tmp > > 380M 11M 350M 3% /tmp > > /dev/mapper/debian-usr > > 4.7G 3.0G 1.6G 66% /usr > > /dev/mapper/debian-var > > 2.9G 283M 2.4G 11% /var > > > > As you can see my /dev/mapper/debian-root is 100% full and I have no > > idea how to extend the size to that partition or how to remove stuff > > from that partition. > > > > My first prize solution is to move space from my /home partition to my > > /dev/mapper/debian-root partition but again - not sure how. > > > > Any ideas please? > > -- > > Regards > > Justin Hartman > > PGP Key ID: 102CC123 > > 0) You must tell us what filesystems you use on / and /var. I suppose it's > ext3 for now. > > 1) If there's space on the VG debian, just extend the root LV : > To see space used on the debian VG : > # vgs debian > > Add space to root : > # lvextend -L+50M /dev/vg/debian/root > > Extend the filesystem > # resize2fs /dev/vg/debian/root > > 2) You've got space on /var, so reduce it to give space to root : > # resize2fs /dev/debian/var 2G > # lvextend -L 350M /dev/debian/root > # resize2fs /dev/debian/root > > If you use reiserfs instead of ext3, replace resize2fs by resize_reiserfs > (see man for the parameters). > If you use xfs, you cannot shrink, but can grow with xfs_grow > If you use jfs, I don't know, but there's certainly a command at least to > grow the filesystem. > > Note : > ext3 can be resize online since <put her a kernel version> and by default > if the filesystem has been created with e2fsprogs >= > 1.38+1.39-WIP-2006.03.29-1 (mke2fs -O resize_inode is by default)
Also apt-get clean may help you there wihout resizing Thierry -- Linux is like a tipi: no Windows, no Gate and an Apache inside
