Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, May 11, 2025 at 09:39:22AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >>>> Am I going to have to boot other media and resize this thing???? >>> Since /var/ is in use by the OS and you keep getting warnings about it >>> being >>> busy, I think you'll have to reboot with a LiveUSB to finish this job with >>> var >>> unmounted. >> Well crap. I checked once ages ago to see if I could do anything with >> LVM and the commands did list things. I guess LVM works on those but I >> can't recall what I was booting. Given it was a while ago, likely >> systemrescue thingy. That doesn't use Gentoo anymore so not sure on if >> that would work or not. > Why shouldn’t it? Even if it is Arch and not Gentoo, it uses the same LVM > software as Gentoo does. Maybe a slightly different version, but not too > different to cause compat issues.
Well, I just liked it better when it was Gentoo too. That way I know everything is compatible. >> I may have a old copy around here somewhere. >> Could put it on that Ventoy thingy. See if that works. > I thought you had an extralarge /boot partition to keep a live ISO around at > all times. :o) I do on my main rig. This is on my old rig tho. It has a lot smaller hard drive for the OS. I have three rigs I use for things. It can get confusing, even for me. Newest rig is Gentoo-1, old rig is Fireball and other rig is NAS. >> I was hoping to avoid that. :/ I thought maybe I was missing something >> or something changed that I couldn't find, yet. > I recently embiggened the root partition on one of my machines and it worked > like you said. Add extents, auto-extend the FS, done: > > thinkpad / # resize2fs /dev/mapper/tp-home > resize2fs 1.47.2 (1-Jan-2025) > The filesystem is already 26214400 (4k) blocks long. Nothing to do! > > > Can you reduce your running system’s footprint? As in log out of KDE and go > to a tty. Maybe something causes a lock. > I still think there is something strange about this. I've done this before on that very rig and that very mount point. I've done it on /usr as well. It just worked. Anyway, it's on my todo list. Right now, I got a 8TB SMR type drive that I'm testing and I'm waiting on UPS to deliver another 16TB spare drive, that was supposed to be here last week. Part of me wouldn't mind that SMR driving dying. I use it but I don't like it. Didn't know it was a SMR until I had it for months. I kept feeling it bumping even when my data was transferred. Rich explained to me what a SMR drive was. I had no idea. Dale :-) :-)
