Re: Transfer storage from home to var

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Roman Meier]
> 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

I would strongly recommend not using lvextend, and instead use lvresize
-r.  I suspect the underlying LVM logical volume is already increased,
but the file system on top is not, and thus you do not see the space.

Perhaps 'lvresize -r -L+1M /dev/vg_system/var' work better.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen