resizing /var

[Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>]

I have /var as a logical volume and have expanded it. Now I need to run
resize2fs to actually use the extra space. In order to run resize2fs
/var needs to be unmounted but practically everything uses /var so I
would need to stop pretty much all services.

What is the best way to handle this? Should I temporarily add a script
to one of the /etc/rc?.d directories and then reboot? 

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