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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Partition advice Post 302831079 by mcclunyboy on Wednesday 10th of July 2013 07:06:12 AM
Old 07-10-2013
Partition advice

Hi,

I have a number of RHEL servers, they are all identical in build and all are encountering disk space issues very frequently. I am hoping you can help me answer a few questions:

1. The servers have 40GB (:O) SWAP Space, I am hoping to reduce this to 10GB at most and then re-use the other 30GB. What is the best way to do this?

2. After doing the above, do I HAVE to create a new partition, or can I extend the existing partitions (I know I can use parted to do this but does it only work for the final partition)?

3. As the servers are virtual I can allocate more disk, I assume this is closely related to question 2- if I can use this to extend existing partitions I will, otherwise I will need to create extra partitions?

I have read quite a few articles around this, mainly from the RHEL knowledge-base and as I have never done this sort of thing before I was hoping for some advice/clarification.

Thanks.
 

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KUMOCTL(1)						      General Commands Manual							KUMOCTL(1)

NAME
kumoctl - show kumofs status SYNOPSIS
kumoctl address[:port=19750] command [options] DESCRIPTION
Show status of kumo-manager and send control commands to kumo-manager. COMMANDS
status show status of the cluster attach attach all new servers and start replace attach-noreplace attach all new servers detach detach all fault servers and start replace detach-noreplace detach all fault servers replace start replace without attach/detach full-replace start full-replace (repair consistency) backup [suffix=20090304] create backup with specified suffix enable-auto-replace enable auto replace disable-auto-replace disable auto replace STATUS
hash space timestamp The time that the list of attached kumo-servers is updated. It is updated when new kumo-server is added or existing kumo-server is down. attached node The list of attached kumo-servers. (active) is normal node and (fault) is fault node or recoverd but not re-attached node. not attached node The list of recognized but not-attached nodes. AUTO REPLACING
By default, you have to attach new kumo-servers manually using kumoctl command. If the auto replacing is enabled, new kumo-servers are attached automatically. This is experimental feature. EXAMPLE
$ kumoctl mgr1 status $ kumoctl mgr1 attach SEE ALSO
kumo-manager(1). kumoctl July 2009 KUMOCTL(1)
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