Re: Transfer storage from home to var

[roman.meier@gismap.ch]

Hi Petter,

I wrote the email a bit too hastily. Sorry for causing this confusion.

It's /var and not /dev.

Again, I was able to nicely reduce the size of /skole/jener/home0.

However, extending the size of /var didn't work:

sudo lvextend -L+5G /dev/vg_system/var
  Insufficient free space: 1280 extents needed, but only 138 available

Kind regards,
Roman

> On 02/02/2023 9:21 PM GMT Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> [Roman Meier]
> > As mentioned in my email, I was able to reduce the size of
> > /skole/jener/home0. I therefore logged in als root and unmounted
> > /skole/jener/home0.
> 
> OK, then I misunderstood.  I read your email to say that you chould not
> find a way to reduce the size.
> 
> > For unknown reasons this space is however not made available to be
> > reassigned to /dev resulting in the error message mentioned.
> 
> Reducing home in LVM would just make ununsed space available to LVM,
> visible using vgs.  This unused space chan then be allocated to other
> partitions using lvresize on this partition.
> 
> You might want to check if you really need space on /dev/, it seem like
> the wrong partition to extend.
> -- 
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen