So, I am running Debian Squeeze and I know I should be running LVM (at least I think I should so I can add physical volumes later on if need be). I am new to LVM overall and have everything up and going, but I ran the volume report and found this: Code: Filesystem Type Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/server1-root ext3 322M 133M 173M 44% / tmpfs tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /lib/init/rw udev tmpfs 7.9G 156K 7.9G 1% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 ext2 228M 16M 201M 8% /boot /dev/mapper/server1-home ext3 1.4T 198M 1.3T 1% /home /dev/mapper/server1-tmp ext3 368M 28M 322M 8% /tmp /dev/mapper/server1-usr ext3 8.3G 961M 6.9G 12% /usr /dev/mapper/server1-var ext3 2.8G 464M 2.2G 18% /var So basically my /var mount is 18% full and the /home partition has all the space. I will not be using the /home partition for users as this is a web server. What is the best way to reassign that space to the var partition or will it auto expand as needed? Thanks and apologies but I am a quasi-noob to certain parts of linux especially when using it as a server.
What you can try is: Move all stuff from /home to some backup folder (so that /home is completely empty), then copy everything from /var to the /home folder, unmount /home and /var, and mount /dev/mapper/server1-home to /var (don't forget to modify /etc/fstab if this works). Then copy the home stuff from the backup folder back to /home.
