how to unmount /var

[Stuart Sears]

François Patte wrote:
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> Bonjour,
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> I have done some mistakes while partitioning my HD and /var is too small.
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> Fortunately, I use lvm... unfortunately I have to unmount /var before
> resizing and so many apps use /var....

why do you have to unmount it? If you are using LVM and ext2/3 you
should be able to do this online.

lvextend -L +<SIZE> /dev/volgroupname/var_volume

resize2fs /dev/volgroupname/var_volume



Regards,

Stuart Sears
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