[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

hhuntsberry at fbi.gov 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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