Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:49:27 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> To: "David Oleszkiewicz" <davido@labrador.dhs.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: /var filling up Message-ID: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIAEOHDJAA.patrick@mip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org>
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David, Greg Lehey's fine book suggests symlink-ing /var, as suggested also by Zach. The last 10 or 15 boxes I have set up have no /var partition, just / (128M), swap (xxxM), and /usr (the rest of the first disk). Immediately after installation I do this: # mkdir /usr/var # cd /var # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf -) # ls -al /usr/var # Just to be sure it happened! # cd / # rm -rf /var # ln -s /usr/var /var I do the same with /tmp, then: # shutdown -r now so that the box can come up clean with the new /var . This procedure has NEVER given me trouble, and it saves worrying about a small /var partition. Thanks to Greg's instructions :) Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Oleszkiewicz Sent: 03 October 2001 05:02 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /var filling up so after about a week and a half of firewall messages and normal logging messages, my /var fills up. i scan through all the logrotated <log>.gz files for anything interesting and then i remove them. the thing is the /bin/df output shows that /var is still above 100%. This means i can't send or receive mail or anything interesting like that. i reboot and then everything is ok. /var is it's own slice with like 20M FreeBSD 4.3 Has anyone else seen this problem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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