increase lvm space

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hello all,

I have /var on a seperate lvm mount, as recommended by scalix.

Now I want to increase the space on the scalix lvm volume.

Do I need to do anything special to scalix? Need to shutdown scalix first? Need to run any specific commands afterwards, or should scalix pickup the change automatically?

Regards,
mj

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Theoretically resizing LVs & their fs are non-destructive, but I wouldn't chance it on a production system - take a full backup of Scalix first.

Reboot into single user mode & unmount /var/opt/scalix.

Resize the logical volume using lvresize.

Assuming you're using ext2 or ext3 resize the filesystem using resize2fs (if you don't specify a size it will expand to fill the LV).

Remount /var/opt/scalix, go to your default run level & you're done.

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thanks very much for the suggestions.

Hope this weekend I'll get to do this!

mj