On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 22:23 -0700, Richard Crawford wrote: > I have an FC3 server which I primarily use to store my wife's and my MP3 files > in a directory on /var (/var/shared/music, actually). I thought that 30GB > would be plenty of room to store all of our music, but I was, of course, > wrong. The drive in question is 160GB. I'd like to resize some of the > partitions (I have 50GB assigned to /home, which is never going to fill up). > This is a single-boot system running only FC3, so I don't need to deal with > resizing NTFS or FAT32 partitions. It's a very basic installation, without > very many bells and whistles (I do have GNOME installed on it, though). > > # fdisk -l > Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 14 6387 51199155 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 6388 10211 30716280 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 10212 19457 74268495 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 10212 19457 74268463+ 8e Linux LVM > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 70G 3.0G 63G 5% / > /dev/hda1 99M 13M 82M 13% /boot > none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda2 49G 360M 46G 1% /home > /dev/hda3 29G 28G 0 100% /var > > It looks to me that I can move possibly 35 GB from /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda3. Is > there a way to snag some of that space from / as well? 70GB seems a bit much > for that partition. > > Or should I just give in and rebuild the system from scratch? > > Any guidance at all would be greatly appreciated. Why did you build the system with separate "fixed" partitions in addition to the main LVM partition? It's a shame, because if you had used LVM for everything (except /boot of course), it would be fairly easy to shuffle space about. I'd be inclined to (in rescue mode) move everything from your full 30G /var partition into the ample space you have in /, then change /dev/hda3 to a Linux LVM partition, and add that partition into VolGroup00. You could then, if you wished, create a new logical volume for /music and/or /var with the newly-available space in the volume group. You could also reduce size of the LogVol00 filesystem and volume to free up yet more space for additional volumes. The LVM HOWTO is well worth a read before doing anything as drastic as a reinstall. P.S. Have you done a "yum clean packages" recently? If not, that might free up some space in /var. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
