Re: resizing /var

[Richard Blumel <richard@blumel.org>]

Rick Pasotto wrote:
> 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? 
>
>   
Just use a live cd like slax that has lvm support..

Good luck.