[rhn-users] Gamin /tmp expand problem

Wed Jan 25 07:35:47 UTC 2006

Hi Frank,

Slight problem copying and pasting output seen from VNC so here is a quick
retyped version of the output:

-----Logical Volume ---

LV Name                     /dev/VolGroup_ID_15006/LogVol2

VG Name                    VolGroup_ID_15006

LV UUID                     1DAG12-v2Hi-tp0n-zsmH-0sQZ-K784C4

LV Write Access          read/write

LV Status                     available

# open                          1

LV Size                        2.00GB

Current LE                   64

Segements                    2

Allocation                     inherit

Read Ahead sectors     0

Block Device                253:1

The original size was about 500mb and the /tmp file the same size. Now as
you can see the the LV seems to be correct at 2GB but now (having started
vmware up again now) the /tmp file reports 400mb used and 1.3GB free.
Slightly odd as it now seems to be using less actual space on /tmp than
before (450MB before) the total of that comes to1.7GB not the 2GB for the
LV. This is slightly unusual too in that last night pre vmware
recompile/start it reported a total of 1.5gb

Not quite sure what's going on, it is working now due to the extra space so
to an extent the problem has been solved but I am definitely curious to know
why it doesn't use all of the LV and indeed seems to be reporting a
different /tmp size almost based on time of day and how it feels rather than
a fixed setting.

Best Regards,

Paul

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From: Lamon, Frank III [mailto:Frank_LaMon at CSX.com] 
Sent: 25 January 2006 02:41
To: paul at its-magic.net
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Gamin /tmp expand problem

There is only an ext2online command (ext3 is just an ext2 filesystem with a
journal). I've never seen ext2online not grow the filesystem to the size of
the LV though. What does lvscan show for the tmp LV or what does lvdisplay
show for that LV?

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Duffield [mailto:paul at its-magic.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:30 PM
To: Lamon, Frank III; 'Red Hat Network Users List'
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Gamin /tmp expand problem

Hi Frank,

That worked a treat - thank you very much!

Slightly oddly though. although I increased the LV to 2GB and the original
/tmp was about 500mb it only shows the result as being 1.5GB which is fine
for my purposes (2GB was actually over kill) but slightly odd that it only
shows as 1.5GB ?

Also the file system was ext3 I ran the ext2online /tmp command though - Was
there an ext3online command too? - I ran ext2online in desperation and it
seems to have worked but wondered for future reference is ext3online exists?

Thanks again for you help I can now get on with configuring virtual machines
:-)

Best Regards,

Paul

Investing heavily in Linux books..

And converting skills as fast as I can from "another" OS  :-)

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From: Lamon, Frank III [mailto:Frank_LaMon at CSX.com] 
Sent: 24 January 2006 21:40
To: paul at its-magic.net; Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Gamin /tmp expand problem

You don't need to unmount the filesystem to resize it in RHEL4 - just
increase the LV to the desired size and run "ext2online /tmp"

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On
Behalf Of Paul Duffield
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:31 PM
To: rhn-users at redhat.com
Subject: [rhn-users] Gamin /tmp expand problem

Hi everyone,

New to the list here and somewhat of a newbie in Linux terms so apologies in
advance for some undoubtedly daft questions!

I have just invested in some RHE 4 x64 which looks good and I am slowly
getting to grips with it.

I have a new install including Webmin and Virtualmin (and vmware)
/tmp is being reported as too small to run any virtual servers - therefore I
need to increase its size from about 500mb (52mb free not enough)
I Increased size of Logical Volume02 by 2GB (For good measure and got loadsa
disc space)
I then apparently need to increase size of /tmp to the 2gb which shouldn't
be a problem with a resize command to the  full extent of the already
extended logical volume. (That went OK)
But when trying to unmount the /tmp file I found various processes are
running - most kill off OK with Webmin users button - kill or terminate.

But one process remains which means I can't unmount /tmp to resize it. The
problem process, gamin, which won't die short of it seems shooting it
somewhere vulnerable in the hardware apparently. I have tried everything (as
a serious new newbie here so may have missed something from "everything" ;-)
) I tried kill gamin at the prompt too - nothing happened, searched forums
till I my finger tips are raw and my eyes strained.

I can't unmount the /tmp and resize it until I can get rid of this process
and it's now holding up the rest of the project so any help would be most
appreciated.

Paul 

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