I have built a machine with Red Hat 5.2

No important information on the new hard drive.

Want to rebuild the system with a separate partition for capturing auditing log infomation. The /var partition should be separate, according to some, so that the log information cannot fill the system disk space.

I have the "create custom layout screen" up. The only drive is a 1 terabyte with VolGroup00 is at 953760 MB
LogVol01 swap is at 1984 MB
LogVol00 ext3 is at 951776 MB

My thoughts are to create a separate partition say at 100000 MB for /var

Which would drop LogV0100 ext3 back to 851776 MB
I am not familiar with this disk partioning utility.

Can you walk me through the seps?

I can call you and walk through the steps together if that is better?


Thanks,

John

[MODERATED]

Have a look at Red Hat > Manuals > Enterprise Linux Documentation > Installation Guide > 4.19. Partitioning Your System. BTW I removed your phone number, better not display it.

Okay, I got one response but don't seem to be doing so good.

My machine has 2 GB of RAM
1 TB hard drive.

I select "create custom layout" during installation from CD

LVM Volume Groups 953760
LogVol00 ext3 951776
LogVol07 swap 1984


Hard Drive
size start end
/dev/sda1 ext3 101 1 13
/dev/sda2 LVMPV 953765 14 121601


I want to make a /var partition to dump log activities into
I am thinking 1000 MB ??

Do I delete /dev/sda2?
recreate /dev/sda2 with a size of 853765
create /var with a size of 100000 ?

I am just having problems with the Disk Druid

It appears that when I create /var the message is there is not
disk space ?


Thanks,

John

You've got partitions and LVM volumes mixed up (or don't have any experience of LVM in the first place). don't touch sda2, instead just reduce the size of the / LV and then add in /var. They will both go inside a single partition, under LVM management.

you CAN delete sda2 and create a totally seperate sda2 and sda3 for / and /var respectively, but there's no need to.

I realize I am spastic relative to this operation but --

I am looking at LVM Volume Groups
LolGroup00 953760
LogVol01 swap 1984
LogVo100 ext3 951776

My choices accross the top are

New Edit Delete Reset Raid LVM

I think I want to reduce ext3 to 851776 ?

Then create /var with a size of 100000 ?

If I select edit it is asking for a mount point. How do I reduce 951776 to 851776 ?

Please be patinet with me


Thanks,

John

Go to System -> Administration - > Logical Volume Managment and there do what @acid_kewpie said.

Also, pleas do not create duplicated posts, just reply to the one you created.

This a duplicate thread, best to delete it.

yep, reduce logvol00 by 1gb, keeping its mountpoint as /, then create logvol02 as ext3, var.

Please report duplicate threads only using the Report button and please supply the dupe link. TIA.

Okay here is what the Disk Druid screen looks like now

VolGroup00 953760
LogVo100 / ext3 851776
LogVol01 swap 1984
LogVol02 /var ext3 100000


However, the disk utility shows the critical error;
"Bootable partitions cannot be on a logical volume."

So I think I am very close as I have the 100000 /var partition to dump
my logging info into. The 1984 swap was set by the utility and the remainder of 851776 is usable system wide during the build.

Is the problem that I have two references to ext3 ?

I thank you for your patience. This is my second post - I'll delete the first post if I can figure out how to do that too.

John

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.

you deleted sda1 as well as sda2? sda1 would be the /boot parition, outside of LVM. If you haven't deleted it, make sure you've defined it to be /boot as well.

The disk is partitioned just as I wanted now.

The SECSCN scanner shows no HIGH Failures and no LOW Failures, some MEDIUM Failures but manageable.

I'll try to be a better guest in the future.


Thanks,

John