Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 11:04:43 -0400 From: "Lanny Baron" <lnb@cybertouch.org> To: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: email and /var Message-ID: <199905031504.LAA15149@freedom.cybertouch.org> In-Reply-To: <199905031003.SAA11451@hsw.generalresources.com>
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> > When freshly installed, Sysinstall creates just a small /var partition > A suggestion for you Chris. As a great fan of a great man, Greg Lehey, you may wish to do the following which can be found on page 72 of The Complete FreeBSD: as root # mkdir /usr/var # cd /var # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) # cd / # rm -rf /var # ln -s /usr/var /var then reboot to single user mode as shown on 157 and 158 in The Complete FreeBSD: boot -s (If you have changed /etc/ttys to not allow single user mode with out passwd you will be prompted for it. If not you will just get the standard question of path to /bin/sh which you just press enter and take the default) In single user mode do the following: # mount -u / # mount /usr # mkdir /usr/tmp # rm -rf /tmp # ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp # umount /usr hit ^d (ctrl+d) it will then boot normally into multi user mode. Hope this helps you out. Lanny Baron http://freedom.cybertouch.org http://ca.samba.org/samba/samba.html > Incoming mail is delivered to /var/mail and I suspect this will soon > fill up. > > I was thinking of doing One of the following, after adding a new disk. > > a. split the disk into two partitions one for /var/mail, > the other for /var/spool/mqueue > b. just mount the new disk on /var (copying the old var data to it first) > c. mount the disk some where else and use symbolic links for > /var/mail and /var/spool/mqueue to the new disk. > > I tend to favour 'c', but just decided to ask in case some one has a > better suggestion of ther is some problem in using symbolic links like > this. > > thanks for any info. > > --- > Christopher Hall <c.hall@computer.org> > > > 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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