Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:49:18 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Do I need to make /var bigger? Message-ID: <16894.57374.477065.937475@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <810a540e05013115135b134ff2@mail.gmail.com> References: <810a540e05013115135b134ff2@mail.gmail.com>
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Pat Maddox writes: > I just got a new dedicated server setup with FreeBSD, and noticed that > the /var partition is only 260MB. That seems like it could be a big > problem, considering all the logs will go in there, as well as mail. > What should I do about this? Do I need to do an OS reload and have a > bigger /var partition made up? I've got an 80 gig hard drive, so > space isn't really an issue. Doesn't make sense to me that I've got a > 77 gig /usr partition, and only 260MB allocated to /var. It depends - very much - on what you're using the machine for. Help us out here. For comparison, on the current machine which is half server half workstation: huff@> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 484M 337M 109M 76% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/da0s1d 989M 69M 841M 8% /var /dev/da1s1d 44G 31G 9.2G 77% /usr Robert Huff
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