If you want to increase /var with 400MB, the command would be

umount /var
e2fsck -fy /dev/vg_system/lv_var
lvextend --size +400M /dev/vg_system/lv_var
resize2fs /dev/vg_system/lv_var
mount /var

This partition is resized similarly to /skole/tjener/home0.

A reasonable size for this partition would be 32MB times the number of thin clients you
plan to have. If you try to boot more thin clients with swapfiles than you have space for
in /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles, then the thin client will not boot.

These swapfiles will be placed in /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles, with the file names

192.168.0.10.swap, 192.168.0.11.swap,192.168.0.12.swap. If you delete these
swapfiles, they will be created again next time the thin client boots.

If you want to increase /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles with 600MB, the command would

be

umount /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles
e2fsck -fy /dev/vg_system/lv_ltsp_swap
lvextend --size +600M /dev/vg_system/lv_ltsp_swap
resize2fs /dev/vg_system/lv_ltsp_swap
mount /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles

If there is already thinclients running using such a swapfile, you might have to stop nfs
before you manage to umount /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles

/etc/init.d/nfs-common stop
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop

And then when you are done resize, start nfs again

/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
/etc/init.d/nfs-common start

8.5.6. Swap
This lv belongs to vg_system. It's present in the profiles mainserver, workstation and
thinclientserver.

Resize the swap-partition is a bit different than the other partitions, mainly because there
is no ext2 filesystem on this partition.
First use free to see the current size of swap

ltspserver05:~# free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 256968 96684 160284 0 5536
48500
-/+ buffers/cache: 42648 214320
Swap: 524280 0 524280

Then turn swap off with the command swapoff

ltspserver05:~# swapoff /dev/vg_system/lv_swap

Then resize the swap-partition, as usual

ltspserver05:~# lvextend --size +200M /dev/vg_system/lv_swap

Extending logical volume lv_swap to 712,00 MB
Logical volume lv_swap successfully resized

Then make new swap with the mkswap

ltspserver05:~# mkswap /dev/vg_system/lv_swap

Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 746582 kB
no label, UUID=fd634991-e5ca-4aac-9fe8-a000bde6bc38

Then turn on swap again with the command swapon

ltspserver05:~# swapon /dev/vg_system/lv_swap

Then check if you now have a different swapsize

ltspserver05:~# free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 256968 97036 159932 0 5768
48520
-/+ buffers/cache: 42748 214220
Swap: 729080 0 729080

As you can see, 200MB more swap.

Probably the most interesting would be to make the swap-partition smaller, for that use
the same commands as above, but use lvresize -L -300M /dev/vg_system/lv_swap to
reduce the size by 300MB

ltspserver05:~# swapoff /dev/vg_system/lv_swap

ltspserver05:~# lvreduce --size -300M /dev/vg_system/lv_swap
WARNING: Reducing active logical volume to 412,00 MB
THIS MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA (filesystem etc.)
Do you really want to reduce lv_swap? [y/n]: y
 Reducing logical volume lv_swap to 412,00 MB
Logical volume lv_swap successfully resized
ltspserver05:~# mkswap /dev/vg_system/lv_swap
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 432009 kB
no label, UUID=9db01ef6-7623-4e5b-956e-b6fe607aec4f
ltspserver05:~# swapon /dev/vg_system/lv_swap
ltspserver05:~# free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 256968 97576 159392 0 6456
48544
-/+ buffers/cache: 42576 214392
Swap: 421880 0 421880

8.5.7. Resizing /var/spool/squid

This lv belongs to vg_system and it's only present in the profile mainserver. This partition
hold the cache belonging to squid, which is a FTP, HTTP and HTTPS proxy cache. This
partition is changed the same way as swapfiles. Make sure you stop squid before you try
to resize,

/etc/init.d/squid stop

otherwise you only end up with

umount: /var/spool/squid: device is busy

The maximum size of this cache is default set to 100MB; look in the file
/etc/squid/squid.conf for the line number 699

# cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256

If you need a bigger squid-cache, remove the # in front of the line, and change the 100 to
desired size. Then you must stop squid, resize the squid-cache and finally start squid
again. If you need 500MB for your squid-cache, this line will do that:

cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 500 32 256

/etc/init.d/squid stop
squid -z
/etc/init.d/squid start