Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:00:47 -0800 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Taro Ikai <ikait@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var short of disk space because of /var/pkg/db Message-ID: <20020207150047.X23465@pianosa.catch22.org> In-Reply-To: <053201c1afed$9e47a550$c801a8c0@p1400>; from ikait@rcn.com on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:39:23AM -0500 References: <053201c1afed$9e47a550$c801a8c0@p1400>
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:39:23AM -0500, Taro Ikai wrote: > My /var partition got full. > > I had the FreeBSD installer automatically allocate partitions, and > as a result, my /var partition is less than 20MB in size. The installer seeks only to crush your hopes and aspirations. Do not put trust its counsel on matters of partitioning. > Recently I started using portupgrade, and the program fattened > the files under /var/pkg/db. > > Question: > > 1) Can I temporarily delete /var/pkg/db/*? Can I then safely > remake the content of this directory using portsdb? > > 2) Can I make the system use space under /usr instead of > /var/pkg/db? Check this out: mkdir -p /usr/var/pkg mv /var/pkg/db /usr/var/pkg ln -s /usr/var/pkg/db /var/pkg/db This creates a place under /usr for the directory, move it over there, and then creates a symlink, so when you look in /var, you end up instead in /usr. Then you are happy. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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