Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:44:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: hacker@chickenbean.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var partition is out of space, I need more now! What do I do! Message-ID: <19981207084443.O603@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812061503.KAA10312@chickenbean.ais-gwd.com>; from Charles A. Peters a.k.a. hacker on Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 10:46:41AM %2B0000 References: <199812061503.KAA10312@chickenbean.ais-gwd.com>
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On Sunday, 6 December 1998 at 10:46:41 +0000, Charles A. Peters a.k.a. hacker wrote: > I have a major problem. My email/web/ftp server /var partition is running out of > space. I'm having problems with the file system being full, and not being able to > process email. This server is online, and I would prefer not to take it down for > more than a few minutes. > > Is there a way that I can increase the size of my /var partition. I do have plenty > of space on my /usr partition. As others have said, a temporary measure is to symlink directories into other file systems. The real answer is ``don't create more file systems than necessary''. Almost the only reason for a new file system is a new disk. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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