From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 21:34:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mlcsmtpp.mlc.com.au (unknown [203.58.188.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6509F37B406 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan_mclean@mlc.com.au) Received: from nsydmn26.mlc.com.au (nsydmn26.mlc.com.au [203.58.188.213]) by mlcsmtpp.mlc.com.au with ESMTP id OAA05639 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:32:07 +1000 (EST) From: dan_mclean@mlc.com.au Subject: Re: i-node problems To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:32:03 +1000 Message-ID: X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on NTHNS026/AU1/MLCESF(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 27/07/2001 14:35:07 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Futher to my last, I have come accross a possible solution to the problem Can anyone tell me the implications of doing the following? Create /var link # mkdir /usr/var # cd /var # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) # cd / # rm -rf /var # ln -s /usr/var /var >I have just installed 4.3 on a 40Gb hard disk (I was sick of not being able >to run latex). >I keep getting an error "out of i-nodes" which I guess means that my /var >partition is filling >up. This is because I used the suggested partition size in the disk set up >part of the install >so only have 20Mb for /var and 39Gb for /usr (ok I know how dumb that is >now). >Here are my questions >1. Can I link the /var/db/pkg files to somewhere on my /usr partition? >2. Can I repatriation the /var some how to be say 100Mb ?? >Thanks in advance. >Dan McLean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message