Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: > I can't change the partition settings or repartition the harddisk > because /var is a very big partition that is also used for data > (database,web).
time to split it up. worth a few minutes of downtime to improve relyability and performance. > However i have empty 6GB partition on the harddisk. I don't need that > much for spool directory, is it possible to repartition the harddisk > while the RAID (linux MD raid) is working? the linux software raid howto > says that you shouldn't. Is there any reason for this? (after you turn > off the RAID on the partition that you want to delete, ofcourse). look at EVMS, it will make many of those steps easier. > Is it possible to create virtual partition on a file (using another > filesystem format)? ugly, but possible. do it on the clean partition though, not in /var itself, since it's probably VERY fragmented. -- In full Effect mode Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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