Some users may experience problems with full partitions on Check Point UTM-1 appliances, most likely with the partition holding the log files as this partition is small, especially at the first appliance series.
When you install SecurePlatform, all partitions have fixed sizes except for /var which gets the remaining free space after the creation of the other partitions. Because logs are stored in /var/opt/CPsuite-R70/fw1/log, there’s rarely trouble with disc space.
The UTM-1 appliance work different as they use the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for handling the partitions. The LVM is assigning the hard disc space to the partitions and allows resizing of partitions.
However, the filesystem is untouched when you resize a partition. So following sk33179 doesn’t give you additional space for your logs.
To achieve this goal you first have to resize the partitions:
- View the name of the log partition with
lvdisplay, most likely, this name is/dev/vg_splat/lv_log. - Then resize with
lvresize -L 30GB /dev/vg_splat/lv_log.
In this example the partition is resized to 30GB.
Reboot the appliance with serial console attached. Access the boot menu by pressing a key when prompted and boot into maintenance mode.
Then execute this commands:
umount /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log
resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log
This modifies the filesystem and brings it to the new partition size.
Reboot the appliance afterwards and verify with the df -h command that you accomplished the resizing of partition and filesystem correctly.
Tobias Lachmann