[NCLUG] Question regarding resizing ext3 filesystems

[Jeffrey D. Means]

On Saturday 11 March 2006 5:00 pm, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jeffrey D. Means wrote:
> > Hi All,
>
> Please don't reply to other posts when starting a new thread.  Just
> start a new thread with a new message.  What does this have to do with
> "March 14 NCLUG Meeting".  But it is marked as a reply to it.

Sorry I didn't realize that it would mark this as in relation to...

> > I have a 2Gb root partition that I want to resize up to around 30Gb.
> > Has anyone had any experience with this and is it even a good idea
> > or should I just consider moving my /var and /usr directories to
> > another partition?  I am running at that point of no extra space on
> > my drive right now so any recommendations would be appreciated
> > greatly.
>
> By what method are you going to resize it up?  A new disk drive?  Or
> by moving to another partition on the same drive?  Or LVM?  Or
> resizing the partition?  Or?

I would really like to resize the partition, on the same physical disk I have 
(now) unused 100Gb of space that I would like to set aside some for this 
rapidly growing partition.

> It is very common on servers to have a small (say 2G for lots of
> breathing room, but 500M works fine) root partition with /var, /usr,
> /home, /tmp, etc on other partitions as needed.  Just adding disk
> space and copying those off works fine.  If you are worried about
> active processes writing to /var then you can always boot off of a
> Knoppix disk or other live boot and copy the images while they are
> offline.

Your thoughts on what would be the best route though would be much 
appreciated.

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