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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:49:56 +0000
To: "Harison Phinizy" <hphinizy@oasysglobal.net>
From: slamdunk <slamdunk@neophile.net>
Subject: Re: increasing the size of the /var partition
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I am actually gonna have a go at answering this one.

I had the same need to do this a week ago - Simple solution was to cp the 
whole /var dir to another larger partition (/usr in my case) and then 
create a symbolic link to /usr/var - Worked for me - hope it works for you

Jerry

At 10:37 21/02/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Default has it at 19megs... I want to increase it to 1.9gb w/out 
>re-intsall can I do that?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Harison


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