topic Re: How to increase/extend file system mounted on / and /var/log in General Topics

How to increase/extend file system mounted on / and /var/log

scenarist — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:31:04 GMT

Hello guys,

I would like to upgrade Gaia to R81.20 and I don't have enough space on / root partition

Also I cannot create snapshot

Could someone give me suggestion how to increase/extend file system /

/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_current and

/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log

P.S I added hard disk through vCenter and create physical volume “sde” and then extend volume group “vg_splat” and increase logical volumes “lv_current” and lv_log with

#lvextend -L +10G /dev/vg_splat/lv_current lv_current

#lvextend -L +10G /dev/vg_splat/lv_log

And as a final step, should I expand now file system?

I know for sk95566 but It will not increase the file system, except logical volumes lv_current and lv_log(above screen).

Re: How to increase/extend file system mounted on / and /var/log

Machine_Head — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:44:18 GMT

I would recommend to clean install r81.20 on a new VM with the right hardware and transfer the configuration.

Leave this one as a backup/fail back.

Re: How to increase/extend file system mounted on / and /var/log

the_rock — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:28:23 GMT

Good reference

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Security-Gateways/Disk-Space-issues-on-Gateway/m-p/161537#M28601

Also, say for what you need, run -> find /var/log -size +900M

That will look for files bigger than 900MBs in /var/log, you can replace 9 with any other digit and see what can be deleted

HTH

Best,

Andy

Re: How to increase/extend file system mounted on / and /var/log

scenarist — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 08:57:28 GMT

Thank you very much for letting me know the alternative ways to make an upgrade but I have found very useful a sk94671 -which has resolved this matter

I would like to mention the following:

-You don't need to get in maintance mode.

-Very important is to run a cpstop in a step 6. (without cpstop you will not see increased space!)

How to increase/extend file system mounted on / and /var/log >> Here is the solution sk94671 - How to add hardware resources, such as log storage, to a Virtual Machine running Gaia OS

Re: How to increase/extend file system mounted on / and /var/log

the_rock — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:30:11 GMT

O yes, did that sk few times, super useful!

Great job 👌

Andy