Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:11:26 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: zbigniew szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var growing too fast Message-ID: <20071221161126.GG54667@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <476B587D.9060000@szalbot.homedns.org> References: <476B587D.9060000@szalbot.homedns.org>
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:09:01AM +0100, zbigniew szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > I thought I would ask your advice. I only have a 2 GB /var slice and > space is shrinking fast. I see that most space is taken by /var/db. > > $ du -hs /var/db > 1.4G /var/db > > $ du -hs /var > 1.7G /var > > $ df > /dev/ad0s1e 2178510 1738396 265834 87% /var > > Is it possible to release some space from /var/db? I seem to recall that > /var/db is pretty important and I better not lose it... Yes, if you are running some database, it can grow fast. Do you have a large, catch-all, partition, such as /home? If go, move /var/db to and make a symlink. You should be able to copy it all with tar. Pick a make-sense name for the directory in the new directory such as 'var.db' Then, in the original /var directory, rename db temporarily - mv db olddb for example and make the link. ln -s /home/var.db db (presuming that you put it in /home) If it all seems good, then rm the olddb and all should be well. ////jerry > > It may be that something else is eating up available space but I am not > sure how to measure it. Every day about 1% more of available space is taken. > > Many thanks for ideas what to do (apart from bying a bigger drive :) > > And season greetings to you all! > > Zbigniew Szalbot > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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