On Dec 16, 2011 5:05 PM, "Neil Bothwick" <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:41:07 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > > I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. > > > Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a > > > good time to extend it as well. > > > > Actually, you need space in /var/tmp/portage > > In fact, he needs space in wherever $PORTAGE_TMPDIR points to. Just set > this variable to somewhere with enough space before emerging libreoffice. > > > > phy disk: /dev/sda my only drive > > > phy part: fdisk create another partition of type LVM (/dev/sda8) > > > phy vol: pvcreate /dev/sda8 > > > vol grp: vgextend vg /dev/sda8 > > > log vol: lvextend --size +10G /dev/vg/var > > > file sys: resize2fs /dev/vg/var > > Did you say your existing PV is sda7? In that case, why mess with having > two adjacent partitions are separate PVs in the same VG. Delete sda8, > resize sda7 to fill the space and run pvresize /dev/sda7 to resize the PV > to fit. Then you can use lvresize and resize2fs to increase /var, or > create a separate space for PORT_TMPDIR. > > I prefer to keep potentially huge temporary directories away from > critical filesystems like /var. >
Alternatively, mount sda8 under /mnt, create "shadow" directories in sda8, and bindmount them when needed. E.g.: mkdir /mnt/sparespace mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/sparespace mount -o bind /mnt/sparespace /var/tmp/portage Of course, this assumes sda8 has enough space for heavy compiles (i.e., 10 GiB or more). Create a huge number of inodes or use a filesystem other than ext[2-4] for sda8, and you're covered. Rgds,
