From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 6 11:17:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26109 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26100 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.054 #11) id 0zmj6g-000OMF-00; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 18:40:34 +0000 Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 18:40:34 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Charles A. Peters a.k.a. hacker" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var partition is out of space, I need more now! What do I do! Message-ID: <19981206184034.A93615@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199812061503.KAA10312@chickenbean.ais-gwd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199812061503.KAA10312@chickenbean.ais-gwd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 a temporary fix, move some stuff to /usr and create a symlink. You can't resize disk slices under FreeBSD, you're supposed to get it right to start with. You may also like to check /var/tmp for unnecessary files, and remove any old crash dumps if you have any from /var/crash, since they'll take a lot of space if you have a lot of RAM. Also, please fix your broken mailer so it wraps lines at <80 characters. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message