Shinking lv's

[IT_2007]

Torsten,

my steps work only if /var is not used more than 500MB. Phil wanted to free up some space on /var.

[Torsten.]

Srini, I don't understand this:

"my steps work only if /var is not used more than 500MB."

How do you prevent the data is lost in the truncated part of the lvol if there is no onlinejfs and you use lvreduce?

[Marvin Strong]

First if you have a more senior admin at your site I would ask them for help.

As others have stated you cannot easily increase the / filesystem on a machine.

if on your source machine all the data under / is contained in a certain directory or could be copied into a certain directory on your target machine. Simply make a new filesystem on the target machine. and mount the filesystem to the directory you want.

example:
machine a
/data part of / contains all extra data needed to be on machine b
machine b
make /data its own filesystem

[Phillip Popp]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will either wipe everything and start over on my second machine or create new file systems under a new vg

Phil