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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:14:05 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        samy lancher <washville2003@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Increase space for /var/db/
Message-ID:  <20031217161404.GC81800@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031217160458.86196.qmail@web60307.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20031217160458.86196.qmail@web60307.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Dec 17), samy lancher said:
> Hello, I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server with mysql database. only 250MB
> was allocated to /var/db. Our database is increasing so fast that now
> i need to expand the memory for /var/db. I guess one way to do is to
> install a new hard drive and then mount it to /var/db. But i would
> like to know if there is any other way to solve that problem. Is
> making a soft link a good idea. i have 70GB in /usr/ so i would like
> to map /var/db/ to some location in /usr/. Please let me know if
> anyone has any suggestions.

That's what I do.

$ ls -l /var/db/pkg
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20 Apr 14  2003 /var/db/pkg@ -> ../../usr/var_db_pkg

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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