From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3B584260.6060204@ednet.ns.ca> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:38:24 -0300 From: Patrick Boutilier MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 2 LVM questions References: <200107201334.QAA26563@easymail.hol.gr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com What I would do is: 1. Create a Volume group using the 2 unused hard disks. 2. Create a file system on the new Logical volume 3. Copy your /var directory to the new filesystem mounted as /var2 (shutdown Mysql first so the data is clean). 4. Move /var to /var3 (mv /var /var3) 5. Mount new file system as /var When you are satisfied that everything is working on LVM fine you can then delete the partition that /var3 is on (old /var) and use it to extend your logical volume. moka@hol.gr wrote: >Hi there, new to LVM, so I would appreciate if you can >point me to answers to these questions: > >1) I have a system with 3 hard disks, and only one of >them is presently used. This contains boot, root and >swap plus a logical partition(not LVM) containing >/var and /home. > >I have big database tables, so I would like > to create one volume group consisting of the 2 > unused disks plus the /var. Is this possible > without losing what is in /var? >2) The reason I need a lot of space is that mysql > which I am using stores the database tables in /var. > Can I somehow "name" the volume group /var > so that mysql will not be confused? > >Thanks in advance, >S.Alexiou > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@sistina.com >http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html >