Can I reduce /home and add that space to root file system? I have tried via cmd line and then the DCO desktop client shows that the server is not starting up.

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This question was originally posted on DCIM Support by Krista Flynn on 2019-06-06

I would like to decrease /home by 10G and add that space to root file system as root is filling up. Eventually I am going to upgrade DCO and change from a cluster install to disaster recovery but was looking for a quick fix now. I attempted the resize the file systems via command line and all looked good and servers rebooted. However, when I try to bring up the DCO client it states that the DCO server is in the process of starting or is down. Can this be done?

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This answer was originally posted on DCIM Support by Krista Flynn on 2019-06-07

I ended up just adding a new disk and extending it that way. The application is actually up and running! Thanks for your input.

Krista

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DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by Greg Sterling on 2019-06-07

Hello Krista.

Were the filesystems on your redhat server provisioned with logical volume manager? and is your DCO server a virtual machine (i.e. VMware guest of some kind)? If yes, be easier to add a small harddisk to the guest and expand the root filesystem.

I do not think we offer a supported procedure for shrinking the /home filesystem although I do see a number of procedures for redhat when I search online. Most of the procedures I see require /home to be unmounted and since DCO has at least one user account which uses /home this means you'd have to take DCO offline.

Assuming you're using LVM, is adding a disk an option for you?

Regards

Greg Sterling

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05