Reducing of /dev/vg00/lvol8 (/var)

[Geetha Alagappan]

Kerry,
I agree with the others - reducing /var is not such a good idea - you'll need to increase it in the future. Also with onlineJFS, it says you can reduce an lvol without unmounting. But, I've had problems with this.
Geetha.

[Rory R Hammond]

Kerry,

I disagree with the others about not reducing var. Size it correctly and maintain your system. I know that disks are cheap, but "waste" the space on more important stuff. On all my systems /var is a reasonably small size.

The best way without downtime is as mentioned is to make a new /var2, cpio, change fstab and reboot.


Good Luck,
Rory

[Sean OB_1]

Kerry,

Just a reminder to give points out to those who answered your questions. It only takes a moment, and helps make the forums more useful to everyone.

Sean

[Pete Randall]

Sean,

While I appreciate your intent, you're flooding the forum with your revival of old messages. Give it a rest.

Pete