resize /var

Reignfire · 08-14-2012, 02:28 AM

Hi,

Is there an easy way to fix the following:

Code:

root@system:/etc# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             323M  146M  161M  48% /
tmpfs                 127G     0  127G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  127G  148K  127G   1% /dev
/dev/sda9             231G  3.5G  216G   2% /home
/dev/sda8             368M   11M  339M   3% /tmp
/dev/sda5             8.3G  525M  7.4G   7% /usr
/dev/sda6             2.8G  220M  2.4G   9% /var

I need my /var to be much bigger, can i resize this in an easy way?

Sandeep Kumar · 08-14-2012, 02:48 AM

Use Gparted

here

deadeyes · 08-14-2012, 02:56 AM

Make sure you have a backup!

For making this to work your partitions that are layed out after /var have to be moved.
This will take a while!

Strange that you didn't use LVM.
That would really ease things and you would be able to do this without downtime.

Wim Sturkenboom · 08-14-2012, 04:55 AM

You only have 10% in use so no need to increase

Maybe a good question is why you feel the need to increase the size of /var? On my LAMP server, the size used on the var partition is currently 59MB. But I don't store web pages and mysql databases in there.

pan64 · 08-14-2012, 07:17 AM

I suggest you to increase /tmp