Re: [LUG] Modifying size of /var partition

["Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/06/06, Philip Radford <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

 

Just wondering if someone could help me out with this predicament.

 

I currently have a very small /var partition which is filling up daily with log files. Over the weekend the capacity figure stated 107% which I have now fixed by moving some files out.

 

Filesystem        1K-blocks    Used       Avail        Capacity    Mounted on

/dev/twed0s1d    253678        60068     173316     26%          /var

 

Can anyone offer guidance on if it is possible to increase the size of this parittion easily without causing harm.

I have to admit that I do not fully understand the figures above in order to convert these into actual k/b or m/b figures.
Is this 25M or 25,000 bytes??

1k-Blocks means 1KB, so it's 253MB. Ish. You've used 60MB of it so far.

I tried the /etc/fstab file but there is no reference to actual sizes only locations and type of file system.

You need to use a partition tool, e.g. parted.

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